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With the magnificent “Tàr”, a film by Todd Field, the Oscar-winning actress finds herself at the heart of a controversy. She is accused of embodying a woman who is too transgressive.
Through Florence Colombani
” Offended “. Cate Blanchett (right) plays Lydia Tàr, a brilliant but tyrannical, perverse and dangerous homosexual. A role castigated by Marin Alsop, conductor, whose character is partly inspired.
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Don one side, the inimitable Cate Blanchett in the role of Lydia Tàr, conductor recognized worldwide as a genius and “cancelled” after the suicide of one of his students, who was also his lover. On the other, a celebrity from the world of classical music, the American Marin Alsop, who was for a long time at the head of the prestigious Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, who shares with the heroine of Todd Field’s film (tar) number of biographical elements (both were students of Leonard Bernstein, lesbians and married to an instrumentalist). Between these two women, the confrontation of two visions of the world, and of art.
Tar accompanies Lydia in her daily life, from New York, where she gives a master class at the prestigious Juilliard School, to Berlin, where she directs the Philharmonic…
Courtesy of Focus Features (x2) – Sabrina Lantos/2020 FX Productions – REX//SIPA – NUMBER 9 FILMS/FILM4/KILLER/Collection ChristopheL via AFP – KILLER FILMS/JOHN WELLS PRODUC/Photo12 via AFP
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