Synopsis
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
Directed by Todd Field
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
Tár, ทาร์, TAR, 塔爾, Тар, Tar, 塔尔, TAR 타르, TÁR塔爾, טאר המנצחת, TÁR 塔爾, TAR/ター, تار, TÁR, टार
To give a hint at what's special about TÁR you needn't look further than the opening credits. The opening credits start backwards with members of the crew that generally are at the very end of the end credits, like catering and production units and assistant editors. This is a movie about how an ego can grow too big and turn to manipulation when one role gets too much credit in a collaborative field. An orchestra is like a film set, and most collaborators get shoved to the back of a program or the end of the film credits. While this adds to the movie's run time up front, it's a fitting gesture for the movie you're about to watch.
Discussions…
just wonderful. one of the most subtly crafted and specific films i have seen in a while. you don’t sit through this thing expecting the camerawork to be so exquisite and masterful for how slow and talk-y it mostly is. love when a movie grips me but still sends me on a scavenger hunt of articles when it’s over! absolutely worth the incredibly confusing crowd response– pretentious, knowing cackles and guffaws through the first two acts made me feel like i somehow snuck into an all-composer screening. someone tried to get a big clap goin during the julliard scene. would’ve killed to see their face at the end
I can't believe the only thing any of you seem to want to talk about is the Juilliard scene when this has possibly the funniest ending I've ever seen to a movie that otherwise presents itself as having loftier, more pretentious ambitions. Was totally blindsided by it because I was sold a very different movie. Can't wait to watch all that early ambiguity and mystery about public image vs. private abuse/transgression, about power, ego, art, industry, etc again knowing that this is meant to be funny and that that is what Field ultimately has in mind for her spectacled “obliteration” in the face of an all-seeing God. Just brutal lol. I also love that it sets it up only to…