Tar is a study of the corruptions of fame and power, the world of classical music and the rise of cancel culture. Babylon is an embarrassment on a grand scale.
Last week I thought Michelle Williams was unbeatable for Best Actress at this year’s Oscars, but after watchingTodd Field’s film about a musical genius who falls for the seductions of fame and power, is a classic Faustian tale. Blanchett’s Lydia Tár doesn’t exactly sell her soul to the devil, but she shows us that talent is one thing, morality another.is a long film, and almost perverse in its structure.
In Berlin, Lydia shares a luxurious apartment with her partner, Sharon , who is also first violin with the orchestra. They have an adopted daughter, Petra, who has just begun school. As details slowly accumulate, we form a picture of an extraordinary personality, fiercely intelligent, hard-working, a natural leader.
. There’s a subtext about Mahler that perhaps only dedicated Mahlerians might fully appreciate. It’s rare for a mainstream film to delve into such subjects.has been criticised for its sexual politics, with one female conductor calling it “anti-woman”, but this is the kind of attack that only draws attention to the film’s strengths. Had it been a male conductor, the story would have been a cliché. Had it been a celebration of female power, it would have been no less superficial.
Perhaps the characters were never intended to be sympathetic in a story Chazelle has described as a “poison pen letter to Hollywood”, but they have less depth than a Bugs Bunny cartoon. The stories of each of the central characters are variations on the rags-to-riches-to-rags theme we see every time Hollywood makes a film about itself, either in celebration or self-hatred.
The other characters we meet at the party who will go on to taste Hollywood’s highs and lows, are black American trumpeter, Sidney Palmer , a beneficiary of the new technology that makes jazz accessible to a mass audience; and Chinese actress Lady Fay Zhu , whose exotic appeal will not be enough to save her career.These characters are all drawn from real people, or combinations of real people.
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