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US 2022, Director: Todd Field
A transcendent Cate Blanchett brilliantly portrays Lydia Tár, one of the greatest composer-conductors who never lived: a genius, an EGOT, and the first ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. We see her navigate a life, both public and private, centered in the international world of classical music: the Juilliard students who dismiss Bach as misogynistic; the hangers-on who want her number; the young, upcoming Russian cellist; her daughter, her wife. In this delicious slow burn of a film, writer-director Todd Field has created a profound and inventive character study, exploring power and fame, passion and paranoia with a wily sensibility. Blanchett’s spectacular performance takes us deep into the life that underscores this complicated, fascinating character—her phenomenal talent, her relationships, her manipulativeness, everything. Watching her conduct is amazing: She takes it on, body and soul, as only a great artist can. —Lily Buchanan
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