(ANSA) - VENICE, 01 SEPT - Not only men, even women, when they have the power, sometimes they ride it for sexual favors.
This is what we see in Todd Field's TÁR, a film competition in Venice 79, which tells of Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), a great homosexual conductor from Berlin who at a certain point finds herself in the crosshairs of a #MeToo platform.
"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 the homogeneity of genres in the art world is not important, rather that it is death. what people do after their work is not important, I mean, I never thought about Lydia's gender, sexuality.
About to conduct Symphony n.
5 by Gustav Mahler (all of which was filmed during two performances of the Dresda Philharmonic in September 2021 at the Kuturpalast), Lydia is accused of having favored the entry into the orchestra of a cellist: an element to which is added a series of promising videoclips put online by a boy and, finally, a rain of reports of other alleged harassment.
"Lydia, the protagonist, seems to take on all the big questions that divide public opinion today. For example, the dilemm of the passing of time. She is about to turn fifty - says Blanchett, who is 53 years old -, a very delicate moment because you know everything you have already done and you ask yourself how much time you still have ahead of you and what use to do with it.
of your career and now you can only go down 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 is back behind the camera after 15 years.
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