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Our review of Tar: Requiem for a Woman of Power

2023-01-24T15:32:22.247Z


CRITICISM – As a conductor at the height of his glory, Cate Blanchett borders on genius. And helps make this film about the abuse of power a masterpiece.


First, there's Cate Blanchett.

It's a monster.

It is a monument.

She concentrated all her previous roles and that gave Lydia Tar, this conductor at the peak of her career and who today leads the Berlin Philharmonic.

We are introduced to it during an interview by a journalist from the

New Yorker

, Adam Gopnik in person.

She knows what she wants, doesn't fear much, displays phenomenal class.

No, she doesn't read reviews.

To do what?

Leonard Bernstein was his mentor.

That's enough for him.

She knows herself.

The proof: she is about to publish her autobiography, which will, no doubt, be a best seller.

This is a lady with a busy schedule.

His job involves spending his life in private jets, giving master classes all over the world.

For the moment, his preoccupation is to record Mahler's

Fifth Symphony

, which now evokes

Death in Venice

to the public.

Other than that, she is - yes - lesbian, married...

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Source: lefigaro

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