Todd Field is one of those directors who releases films infrequently – his last one was Young children, in 2006, and this was only his third film. Now, he’s back with me tar, starring Cate Blanchett. Watch the teaser trailer below.
Details about it are scarce, but we do know that it finds Blanchett playing the fictional Lydia Tár, an accomplished composer who became the first female conductor of a German orchestra. We reportedly follow Tár through her daily life living in Berlin, leading up to the recording of her latest deal.
This first trailer really doesn’t give much away, focusing on Blanchett’s character in slow motion as the voiceover talks about those the gods are destroying. Does this suggest that Tár has too much of an ego? It certainly wouldn’t be out of place among creative types like conductors.
The cast for this includes Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Mark Strong, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Sophie Kauer and Sylvia Flote. Field wrote the screenplay and the score, fittingly, is by the Oscar winner Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir.
tar (yes, apparently we’re supposed to spell it that way) will be in US cinemas on October 7th (with a scheduled debut at the Venice Film Festival that clearly has a string of awards) but won’t be released in the UK until January.
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