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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMarin Alsop, a female conductor namechecked in Tár, has hit out at the critically acclaimed film, calling it “anti-woman”.Cate Blanchett stars in Todd Field’s film as Lydia Tár, a world-famous fictional conductor who finds herself at the centre of a debate about the power given to successful artists after she is accused of preying on and abusing young musicians.A number of reviewers…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCate Blanchett’s admiration for filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is truly unmatched.The already heavily accoladed Australian actor made her first appearance in a Del Toro movie in his 2021 thrilling drama Nightmare Alley, alongside her former Carol co-star Rooney Mara and Bradley Cooper.But, it seems this leading role didn’t satiate Blanchett’s cravings for Del Toro’s creative genius.…

Aubrey Plaza is voicing what all of us are thinking about Cate Blanchett’s possible career best performance in Todd Field’s TÁR. The actress went on Drew Barrymore’s podcast to talk all things The White Lotus, as well as other random themes, among which was Cate Blanchett’s work in the 2022 film, where she plays Lydia Tár, a conductor who gets in all kinds of nefarious situations throughout the story. Barrymore and Plaza were discussing opening credits, such as the now-viral The White Lotus title sequence, when the…

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The film Tár opens with the dual lenses of celebrity. First, in private, through a screen: Cate Blanchett’s Lydia Tár sleeps in a private jet, curled into the chair, face obscured by an eye mask. We see her through someone else’s phone – an assistant, a flight attendant, a friend? – filmed in the style of an Instagram live overlaid with private, mocking text. She’s a vulnerable cipher, surveilled, alone.Next, in public, in a theater – the vaunted conductor commands the room of a New Yorker talk, hosted by the magazine’s…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press “Time is the thing,” says Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) in Todd Fields’ “Tár.” Lydia, a world-renown conductor, is explaining her art as more than waving a baton around — not a mere “human metronome” — but rather an almost god-like ability to mold and contort time. The way Blanchett says this, with her arms swirling and shaping the air like clay, makes you believe, yes, she really can stop time. But in “Tár” — a movie that likewise measures and sculpts moments with intense precision — time…

Image via Focus Features No one does it quite like Cate Blanchett; whether it’s Indiana Jones or Don’t Look Up, the actress’s limitless range allows her to slot into just about any role she fancies. If anything is for certain, it’s that Blanchett’s artistic approach, whatever it is, won’t be firing back on her any time soon. So perhaps the role of Lydia Tár, the fictional orchestra conductor and the subject of Todd Field’s deftly crafted Tár, was all the more enticing. Whether it’s as enticing as the taste of…

No one but Cate Blanchett could have delivered the imperious hauteur necessary for this engrossing movie from writer-director Todd Field, about a globally renowned conductor heading for a crisis or crackup or creative breakthrough. No one but Blanchett has the right way of wearing a two-piece black suit with an open-necked white shirt, the way of shaking her hair loose at moments of abandon, the way of letting her face become a Tutankhamun mask of contempt. She holds the screen for two and a half hours, aided by Florian…

Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Greta Gerwig and Harry Styles are among the names heading for the Venice Lido later this year, it has been revealed, after the Venice film festival announced its lineup for its 2022 edition.Blanchett is starring in TÁR, a drama about a leading female orchestra conductor written and directed by Little Children’s Todd Field, and which will compete for the festival’s prestigious Golden Lion. The films it will be up against include Bones and All, starring Chalamet and Taylor Russell in a…