Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director ... Read allSet in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
- Nominated for 6 Oscars
- 76 wins & 270 nominations total
Zethphan D. Smith-Gneist
- Max
- (as Zethphan Smith-Gneist)
Alec Baldwin
- Alec Baldwin
- (voice)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCate Blanchett had to re-learn the piano, learned how to speak German, and learned how to conduct an orchestra for the film.
- GoofsWhen Lydia is talking to the two technicians after a rehearsal in Berlin, she requests they send her audio and video recordings, but the console in front of them in the booth is actually for controlling lights, not audio/video.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits presents the film crew and acknowledgments (usually shown at the end titles) without presenting the actors. The actors and soundtrack are shown at the ending without the crew.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- SoundtracksDas Wohltemperierte Klavier: Präludium and Fuge C-Dur, BWV 846
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano, Cate Blanchett
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It is not surprising that this film is tanking at the box office since it is much too long and slow paced for the average movie goer's attention span. Indeed parts of it, like the agonizingly protracted opening scene where a New Yorker magazine music critic interviews the title character about her classical music esthetics, seem designed by writer/director Tod Field as a boredom experiment wherein if you can survive it without running and screaming into the night out of sheer and utter ennui then you are worthy to see the rest of his "masterpiece".
Thing is, though, that a lot of this film does approach, if not encroach upon, masterpiece territory. Certain scenes, like Lydia Tar's bleak Staten Island homecoming where she summons the spirit of her mentor Leonard Bernstein in an effort to recapture the humanistic values she has lost, are genuinely heartbreaking. And the sequences that deal with Lydia's manipulation of her acolytes are difficult to watch as we see how artistic power feels even more corruptible, somehow, than the political kind, perhaps because it is a profanation of a purer space.
And I think we can all agree that Cate Blanchett is one helluva fine actor! As are Nina Hoss, Noemie Merlant and Sophie Kauer who play various of her entourage/victims.
Bottom line: For all its faults I have a sneaking suspicion that in twenty years they'll be watching this and not "The Fabelmans". Give it a B plus.
Thing is, though, that a lot of this film does approach, if not encroach upon, masterpiece territory. Certain scenes, like Lydia Tar's bleak Staten Island homecoming where she summons the spirit of her mentor Leonard Bernstein in an effort to recapture the humanistic values she has lost, are genuinely heartbreaking. And the sequences that deal with Lydia's manipulation of her acolytes are difficult to watch as we see how artistic power feels even more corruptible, somehow, than the political kind, perhaps because it is a profanation of a purer space.
And I think we can all agree that Cate Blanchett is one helluva fine actor! As are Nina Hoss, Noemie Merlant and Sophie Kauer who play various of her entourage/victims.
Bottom line: For all its faults I have a sneaking suspicion that in twenty years they'll be watching this and not "The Fabelmans". Give it a B plus.
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- mossgrymk
- Dec 26, 2022
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Tar
- Filming locations
- Dresden, Saxony, Germany(Kulturpalast & Großen Garten Platz)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,773,650
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $158,620
- Oct 9, 2022
- Gross worldwide
- $29,048,571
- Runtime2 hours 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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