Tàr or being melodiously cancel

Tàr, the last movie of Todd Field, is an interesting movie about cancel culture that society puts in place nowadays.

This movie progressively came out in theaters, the premiere was at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September 2022, and some restricted releases until the end of October 2022, before its release on October 28th 2022 in the US (and at the end of January 2023 in France).

In this movie Todd Field invites his spectators into the world of orchestra via a female conductor, Lydia Tàr (played by Cate Blanchett), and shows us the world of being a woman, furthermore lesbian, in a male dominant world.

Todd Field didn't make a flat min character, Lydia has flaws that she tries to hide due to the fact that she's surrounded by men, only her secretary knows them. They speak about Krista Taylor, an ex-student of Lydia, which was a student at the same time as Francesca Lentini, Lydia's assistant, who tries to recontact with her teacher who don't want to respond to her because she doesn't want her in her life anymore for reasons we, the spectators, don't know, and Lydia push Francesca Lentini to do the same. We can feel that Francesca Lentini is not comfortable with this idea without really knowing why because of the blur around this faceless Krista Taylor.

Krista Taylor commits suicide and her family want indemnifications from Lydia because she's the cause of her suicide, for them she's the reason she ended her life because her ex-teacher didn't try to help a person in big distress who tried to ask for her help.

This event will put the German conductor into a difficult position in which she will have legal issues but also familial ones due to this story of suicide; it will also start the cancel of Lydia Tàr and the movie ask the spectators: can we cancel someone without knowing the whole story?

This movie puts us at the same place of the people who want to cancel her by having missing pieces of the puzzle, why did Krista was in distress? What happened between Lydia, Krista and Francesca when everything was still alright between them? Why does Lydia have this peculiar interest for those young female talents, is it for their talent or for their beauty?

In this movie Cate Blanchett shows us that she really can play anything, she is a woman with a million faces.

My note: 4.5/5 The story is great, it questions us about the actual society and this blur about Krista story makes it better even if I wasn't able to put a perfect because I really wanted to know what really happened between her and Lydia.

 

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