Submitted by Detroit_Cineaste t3_11rxyeo in movies
Tár is intimidating in a way that few movies attempt. I would liken it to accidentally walking into an advanced placement class on your first day of high school. Like its eponymous character, the movie is also funny, horrifying, inscrutable and brilliant. It's the rare movie that asks the audience to lose itself in a completely foreign world and patiently observe its anti-hero while she moves like royalty within it. Then, gradually and deliberately, the movie reveals what it has to say about her. Tár questions our feelings towards genius, asking whether accomplishments should ever excuse the personal shortcomings of the artist. The movie features a career-capping performance from Cate Blanchett whose unsympathetic Lydia is an unlikable but incredibly compelling protagonist. Producer-writer-director Todd Field has crafted another piece of stunning film making, and I would hope his next film arrives sooner than the eighteen years between this one and Little Children. You may need to see Tár more than once to fully appreciate it, but you won’t regret it. Highly Recommended.