I Am Breaking My Silence on TÁR

and also Decision to Leave, Aftersun

Watching

TÁR (2022)

Todd Field’s first film in 16 years opens with the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik playacting himself onstage with Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), a fictional, world-renowned composer/conductor preparing to record Mahler’s Fifth with the Berlin Philharmonic. Blanchett, as game as she’s ever been, prattles on about her field and work with studied …