Writer-director-producer Todd Field's third feature, the first in 16 years (Little Children, 2006 and In the Bedroom, 2001), showcases this impressively successful cinematic master's unique style as well as his quite but confident and powerful direction.
Field's impressive verisimilitude is achieved by grounding the fictional character with real events while gradually unfolding clues for the viewer to piece together the unsettling psychological drama.
Successful composer-conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has brilliant career accomplishments. However, her life suddenly unravels as rumors about her apparent former love interest and protégé, Krista Taylor (Sylvia Flote), her involvement with the new cellist, Olga Metkina (Sophie Kauer), her infidelity to wife Concert Master Sharon Goodnow (Nina Hoss), and the bypassing of her devoted assistant, Francesca (Noémie Merlant), for the position of Assistant Conductor, gives start to a social media trial.
Besides her magnificent acting performance, 53 years-old Blanchett conducts the orchestra and plays the piano herself without the aid of a stunt fill-in.
Complementing the film's enjoyment, are the across the board, top-notch actors, Florian Hoffmeister's cinematography, Monika Willi's editing, Oscar-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir's score, and the classical music.
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