Todd Field's Best Picture-nominated film "Tár" is such a compelling and realistically realized drama, that some audiences have left screenings convinced that the title character, an orchestra conductor named Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), is 100% real. The details of the classical film world were so stringent and meticulously researched for "Tár" that many simply believed they encountered a straight-up biography of a real-world celebrity that merely lay outside of their usual field of vision.
Some of the details in Field's screenplay, of course, are something of a giveaway. Lydia Tár, for instance, is an Egot, a rare achievement only gained by 18 people to date. Other details, however, were perhaps plausible. For instance, Lydia Tár is said to have studied under Leonard Bernstein, the famed conductor and composer. Bernstein's career as a lecturer and professor is long and prestigious, and the famous people he instructed are numerous. His body of work is so vast,...
Some of the details in Field's screenplay, of course, are something of a giveaway. Lydia Tár, for instance, is an Egot, a rare achievement only gained by 18 people to date. Other details, however, were perhaps plausible. For instance, Lydia Tár is said to have studied under Leonard Bernstein, the famed conductor and composer. Bernstein's career as a lecturer and professor is long and prestigious, and the famous people he instructed are numerous. His body of work is so vast,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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