This led to some confusion on the internet because how could Tár possibly be nominated for original screenplay, when the entire movie is based on the life of Lydia Tár, one of the greatest ...

Early in the movie Tár (directed by Todd Field), Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is holding forth about her art and life to a packed crowd at a New Yorker public talk. Lydia is a world-famous conductor and ...

From the artful silhouettes of Lydia’s suits to her collection of fine books and records to her marriage to Sharon, her orchestra’s first violinist (played by the brilliant German actress Nina Hoss), ...

Lydia Tár is not a real person, but a fictional conductor-composer, whose success on the podium and in the recording studio has earned her a rare, celebrity status. Tár gradually orchestrates the ...

The Cut titled their review “No, Lydia Tár Is Not Real,” a nice companion ... Tár, by contrast, presents milestones in the life of its subject almost exclusively in the form of allusion ...

Alsop denounced the prestige drama’s depiction of Lydia Tár — a fictional, abusive, narcissistic maestro who bullies her students and exploits her employees. Alsop — a real-life maestro ...

But her deeply human complexities and nuances have been carefully considered by Blanchett who was so engrossed by the character she says she’s now unable to envision her life without Lydia ...

except to say that it filled me with a fresh wave of admiration — for Lydia, a consummate artist even at her lowest, and for the brilliantly thought-provoking movie that brought her to life ...

Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár. Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features ... In 2018, La Scala’s music director, Riccardo Chailly, opined that life was no longer especially challenging for women in ...

TODD FIELD: It was important that there at least be an effort to create a world for Lydia that hopefully not ... that was fairly life changing. She has the ability to look at narrative outside ...

TÁR will release in select theaters on Oct. 7 before expanding wide on Oct. 28. The dense, meticulously constructed TÁR is writer-director Todd Field’s first feature in 16 years (his last film ...

Berlin may look enticingly civilized, with its unhurried café life and the embracing glow of its concert hall, but follow Lydia to a scuzzier district and down into a basement, in pursuit of Olga ...