Tar takes a long time to get where it's going and when it arrives, it plays in mezzo-piano when fortissimo is needed. However, Cate Blanchett's talent radiates from the screen. Her ability to transform into her character is nothing short of exceptional.

I don't know if people keep saying it's amazing to feel cool and pretend to be a movie's critic, but it's boring, goes nowhere and you get really of it at the first 30 minutes. No plot twist, nothing happens to her, nothing was explain.

A really dull movie. I don’t know what all the fuss is about.

honestly what the fuck was that?

Ok ok ok, God bless ‘Heavy Spoilers’ on YouTube - I now understand and appreciate this film :innocent:

What did I just watch?…

Last year's "The worst person in the world" took away an appropriate title for this movie...
Cate Blanchett and the rest of the cast are brilliant, as the technical aspects and moral issues it raises - but boy, did I get an unpleasant feeling from Lydia Tár as a character

2 hours and 38 minutes of what? literally the most dull film i’ve seen in so long. Nothing is ever explained and I cannot understand the hype to this film.

Sadly completely overrated. Blanchett is great the movie is mediocre at best. And it is way too long.

There's a subtle construction that is sustained in two long sequences during the first part: the interview and the class. They are the two springs that raise the main themes of the film, and for this reason the structure proposed by Todd Field is exquisite and intelligent. The secrets are the inner demons, the symbolic representation of a persecution that is more psychological. Supported by a superb Cate Blanchett, the film has that Kubrickian film planning that at times can be too obvious, but feels comfortable in the construction of spaces that suffocate and imprison, despite their breadth.

Long and kind of boring.

Good performances but that’s about all that can say.

Not sure what the fuss is about.

5/10

Hilarious and haunting. There's a real beguiling quality to this film - it's a character study and yet it manages to touch on so many grand and complex themes while being so singularly focused. Power, obsession, identity politics, image/persona, the transcendent qualities of art, passion, the list could go on.

The classroom scene in the first act really seems to put a context around the rest of the film. Can the merits of a piece of art be separated from the creator? Are they inextricable? Is it an act of ego to dismiss something because we take offence? Do we deny ourselves of something valuable when we moralize art and the artist? Lydia Tar certainly seems to think so. She admonishes her student for letting his ego get in the way of perfecting his craft. She asks him something along the lines of "On what basis would you like those filling out your rating cards judge you?" The implied answer being, simply on my skill.

The "Apartment For Sale" song better be nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars!

I feel like this could've been done in 1h40min and it would've been even more compelling to me personally. However, compelling it is, and though lingering or drawing things out is something I often can't stand in filmmaking, I can get through it if the writing is good, and it is. Also, Cate Blanchett is immaculate in this. What a fantastic performance.

Complex and multi-layered character study that can offer a lot to unpack. It’s intriguing how subtle it can get when facing inward despite coming across as explicit (if not a little up itself) while going through its agenda on the superficiality of me too and canceling culture. I particularly liked how noise increasingly starts haunting the conductor while her control of the world slowly slips out of her fingers.

Still, I have to confess that I have a thing for fetish actresses in ambiguous roles being tormented for whole movies, especially if I can get sprinkles of gothic/oneiric on top.

The only thing that felt a little silly is the Linda thing towards the end, but everything that comes right after that effortlessly makes up for it, showing one more time that irony can hide in the detail, without having someone spelling out every reference.

Terrible movie , seriously do not watch .

masterclass in acting from Cate Blanchett