2/20/2023 0 Comments Silicon valley season 3 torrent![]() ![]() It’s Fields’ first film in 16 years, following the uneven 2006 misfire “Little Children” and his assured Oscar-nominated 2001 debut, “In the Bedroom.” At 2 hours and 38 minutes, you can almost feel him trying to make up for the lost years in “Tár.” Into it he funnels a gripping portrait of power and art, rigorous and devastating in its exactitude, while impressively less definite about a host of hot-button issues like so-called cancel culture, identity politics and #MeToo.īut though Lydia’s mounting issues - whispers about her propensity to groom young female players as her lovers the suicide of a former trainee conductor following Lydia’s blacklisting of her a young daughter (Mila Bogojevic) she leaves largely for her wife and philharmonic concertmaster (the brilliant Nina Hoss) to care for - are increasingly public, “Tár” is a thoroughly intimate film. ![]() “Tár,” written and directed by Fields, is, itself, distinguished by time. It’s in these chilly, highbrow environs that Lydia operates with exquisite intellect and ruthless cunning - and Blanchett gives a colossal tour-de-force performance that may be the finest of her career, a career as decorated as Lydia’s. The film is shot by Florian Hoffmeister with a cool, almost documentary-like perspective. The spaces Lydia occupies are crisply contemporary architectures. “Tár,” which opens in theaters Friday, is situated in a very real high-art, big-media world. Yet an introductory, fleeting moment of a phone camera pointed at an asleep Lydia, with mocking texts filling the screen, presages that the conductor’s rarified perch may be in jeopardy. ![]() Her listed accomplishments - conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, protégée of Leonard Bernstein, a glass ceiling-shattering figure of the classical music world, an EGOT-winner with a new memoir, “Tár on “Tár,” out - are as impressive as her regal, polished stage presence. Just after the opening credits roll, Lydia is there on a gleaming New York stage before a rapt audience being interviewed at length, and with almost oppressive accuracy for such fawning exchanges, by The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik (as himself). ![]() The way Blanchett says this, with her arms swirling and shaping the air like clay, makes you believe, yes, she really can stop time.īut in “Tár” - a movie that likewise measures and sculpts moments with intense precision - time may be catching up with Lydia. Lydia, a world-renown conductor, is explaining her art as more than waving a baton around - not a mere “human metronome” - but rather an almost god-like ability to mold and contort time. “Time is the thing,” says Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) in Todd Fields’ “Tár.” ![]()
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