I wanted to like TÁR, but I just found it boring. Way too long and drawn out. I thought the story was decent with fantastic performances but it just did not work for me. I can appreciate it as a masterpiece in film making, even though I considered it a pretty poor watch. Score: 60% | Verdict: Decent
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Cate Blanchett is superb as the eponymous, ruthlessly focussed and highly accomplished, maestra who lives with her violinist wife "Sharon" (Nina Hoss) and young daughter "Petra" (Mila Bogojivic). Acclaimed by her peers, she is now the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. A job not without it's complications - she must select music, inspire musicians, and deal with her less then competent assistant "Sebastian" (Allan Corduner) who was a favourite of the previous occupant of her job "Da...
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The downfall of a great conductor (conductress??) could have been an interesting topic. But ‘TÁR’ is 2h38mins of leaving out major plot points and instead showing details in dreadful scenes that often don’t lead anywhere. The viewer has to make all this up for themselves, such as whether Tár is victim or culprit. In a way, this is all quite well done. Unfortunately, the film is too boring and incomprehensible to care. This being a film about conducting, I found Blanchett’s conducting style r...
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by Elisa Vargas Fernandez
Opening credits
by Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Ró is performed by the Juilliard students
by Tempered Clavier
Juilliard masterclass
by Vocal Version
Soundtrack album only
by Petra (Recording Session)London Contemporary Orchestra,Robert Ames
Soundtrack album only
by Hildur Gudnadottir,London Contemporary Orchestra
Background
by Count Basie
Tár plays the record at home with Nina
by Roomful of Teeth
by Richard Wagner
Cello auditions
by Da Requiem
Cello auditions
