Todd Field’s first film for sixteen years, Tár – starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, an American superstar composer-conductor – has divided audiences for reasons that slowly but subtly reveal themselves as the film progresses.
To begin with we see Tár in all her carefully constructed professional and intellectual glory. A protégée of Leonard Bernstein, she twinkles with the stardust of his endorsement and is an EGOT: her awards include an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. She’s tough, easy to dislike but apparently bulletproof.
