Tar [DVD + Blu-ray] [2023]
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Tar [DVD + Blu-ray] [2023]
| Dimensions: | 17.4 x 13.7 x 1.7 cm; 160 Grams |
| Dimensions: | 17.4 x 13.7 x 1.7 cm; 160 Grams |
| Origin: | United Kingdom |
Tar [DVD + Blu-ray] [2023]
| Dimensions: | 17.4 x 13.7 x 1.7 cm; 160 Grams |
| Dimensions: | 17.4 x 13.7 x 1.7 cm; 160 Grams |
| Origin: | United Kingdom |
Todd Field is a genius. The trailer suggests that this is some inaccessible arthouse highly stylised piece. It isn’t. What it is is a darkly provocative look at power, those who wield it and what happens as the ground moves beneath their feet. It is captivating and moves at quite a pace. The final reel is delightfully ambiguous. Make sure you are paying attention. Not a film during which you can afford to be checking your phone 😉
I was thinking about this for days after I watched it. Both dense and entertaining.
Excellent character study, the best film of the year, subtle portrait of driven people who abuse their power, incredibly three-dimensional, great beauty and subtlety, great insight and great horror, all played out within a societal context that actively seems to encourage people to become isolated, manipulative ego-maniacs. Sometimes, all feeling dies, accept for animals and children, then the only feeling left behind is for work, which becomes the monster that eats itself. Magnificent piece of work.
With its robust 2 hours and 38 minutes, this film explores the stardom and downfall of a fictitious director of orchestra. For me, it is one of the best movies of the past few years: extraordinarily powerful, with Cate Blanchett at her usual best, flanked by a great Noemie Merlant and Nina Hoss! It is a film about the current pc culture in which any accusation, even if not corroborated by any proof, can ruin a person’s career. A wonderful example is a young and woke trainee director who refuses to play Bach (BACH!!!) as ‘White, male cis composers are just not my thing’. To which Blanchett replies: ‘Don’t be so eager to be offended…the narcissism of small differencces leads to the most boring conformity!’ A wonderful work of art!
No surprise that Cate Blanchett is superb, but she plays such a complicated, destructive yet gifted character so faultlessly. Oh, and beautiful music thrown in too.
I hovered between 4 and 5 stars, but ultimately awarded 5 because it was different. Whether you need the background of classical music to tell a story about the shifting of power I doubt – on the one hand a lot of the dialogue involved technicalities that few would understand, on the other with all the noise and the arm waving it did rather suit Blanchett and she certainly delivered a performance full of panache