Synopsis
Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.
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Cast
- Cate BlanchettLydia Tár
- Nina HossSharon Goodnow
- Noémie MerlantFrancesca Lentini
- Sophie KauerOlga Metkina
- Julian GloverAndris Davis
- Mark StrongEliot Kaplan
- Sylvia FloteKrista Taylor
- Mila BogojevicPetra
- Allan CordunerSebastian Brix
- Fabian DirrKnut Braun / Tár's Orchestra
Recommendations
- 100
IndieWire
TÁR is a provocation full of slow-motion suckerpunches and the driest of laughs (even its accented title is a knowingly pretentious in-joke) and yet Field seems as uninterested in trolling his liberal audience as he is in patronizing them. - 100
Variety
The movie is breathtaking — in its drama, its high-crafted innovation, its vision. It’s a ruthless but intimate tale of art, lust, obsession, and power. - 100
The Telegraph
The film wields its intelligence and style with total effortlessness, and its every move holds your gaze like a baton’s quivering tip. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Tár marks yet another career peak for Blanchett — many are likely to argue her greatest — and a fervent reason to hope it’s not 16 more years before Field gives us another feature. It’s a work of genius. - 100
Vanity Fair
TÁR is breathtaking entertainment, beautifully tailored in luxe, eerie Euro sleekness by production designer Marco Bittner Rosser and cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, and ominously scored by Hildur Guðnadóttir (who gets a little meta shout-out in the film). That fine craftsmanship is all anchored by Blanchett’s alternately measured and ferocious performance, a tremendous (but never outsized) piece of acting that is her most piercing work in years. - 91
Collider
The remarkable details in how information is revealed entirely through a central performance is the reason TÁR excites. Not what it has to say, but how it tells us the story through a dual execution of performance and writing preparation. - 80
The Guardian
I am not sure that all the film’s disparate and intriguing tics and hints and feints all come satisfactorily together, but what a colossal performance from Cate Blanchett. - 80
Screen Daily
TÁR’s engrossing spell starts to dissipate over its final third, and yet this is that rare film about a creative person that feels neither self-pitying nor self-aggrandising. Indeed, one of the picture’s great strengths is that it’s never entirely clear what Field thinks of his complicated heroine.
