Tár (dir. Todd Field) is the best new film I have seen in ~four years. Maybe that doesn’t mean much, but I’d expand and say that Tár is comfortably amongst the best of anything in any medium I have consumed in a significant period of time. Tár’s opening scene with Cate Blanchett – Lydia Tár, the EGOT, the Maestro – being interviewed on stage, and at great length, is instantly compelling. The nuance and specificity of Blanchett here is unreal, as is that of the script, so much of what is being said staying with the viewer through the film, and then creeping back into their thoughts towards the climax, and then in the hours and days afterwards.
