Tár: Missing the Music
The Banality of Culture War
Todd Field’s Tár, starring Cate Blanchett, is an exquisite, haunted, ambiguous film with many suggestive portals. The film is formally an Aristotelian tragedy—it follows the life of an accomplished, yet disturbed composer who loses her grip on reality and falls from veneration to disgrace. Tár starts on the stage of the New Yorker Film Festival, hailed…
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