“Tar” is not a happy movie. Neither is it entertaining. It is, however, a compelling tour de force for Cate Blanchett as well as its director, Todd Field.
We don t really meet Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), the protagonist in Todd Field s scorching #metoo drama, as much as we are appraised of her, in a fawning introduction before a live interview on stage with Adam Gopnik, of The New Yorker. He gushes on about her myriad accomplishments starting with leading the Cleveland Orchestra, then Philly s, and New York s, and finally, now with the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the plum assignments in all of conducting. She s apparently won more awards and grants than even Gopnik can list, along with earning an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), and having just published a memoir, titled "Tár on Tár."