Not only men, even women, when they have the power, sometimes ride it for sexual favors.
This is what we see in Todd Field's TÁR, a film in competition at Venice 79, which tells of Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), a great homosexual conductor from Berlin who at one point finds herself in the crosshairs of a scandal #MeToo.
"I have never considered the LGBT aspect of the film, of course my Lydia likes women - says Blanchett at the Lido -, but I firmly believe that gender homogeneity in the art world is not important, rather that it is the death. What people do after their work is not important. In short, I never thought about Lydia's gender, sexuality. This film is a very human portrait of a person with all his weaknesses. "
About to conduct Symphony n.
5 by Gustav Mahler (all filmed during two performances by the Dresden Philharmonic in September 2021 at the Kuturpalast), Lydia is accused of having favored the entry of a cellist into the orchestra: an element to which is added a series of compromising videos posted on the net by a boy and, finally, a shower of complaints of other alleged harassment.
"Lydia, the protagonist, seems to take on all the big questions that divide public opinion today. For example, the dilemma of the passing of time. She is about to turn fifty - always says Blanchett, who is 53 years old -, a really delicate moment because you know everything you've already done and you wonder how much time you still have and what use to make of it. You are, in short, at the peak of your life,
of your career and now you can only get off the mountain.
The climb to success is much easier than the descent, the failure.
The film also addresses this topic. "" It's not a film written with Cate Blanchett in mind, but rather written just for her, "explains Todd Field, who gets back behind the camera after 15 years.
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