Tar

[Auggie]

Currently streaming on PeacockTV. Also available to rent on Apple, Prime, etc.

Outstanding performance by Cate Blanchett, perhaps her best ever.

I loved it. Only quibble is that some scenes could have been shortened to reduce the 158 minute running time though that would have meant less Cate. She really is dynamite in this.

[Ocelot II]

1. That was an excellent (though strange) film, and Blanchett was spectacular.

If you're into classical music, as I am, it resonated in a lot of ways besides the psychological stuff. Tár is a monster, but oddly sympathetic at the same time as everything falls apart around her - even though it was her fault.

[bif]

2. And even better if you're a Mahler fan!

Excellent performance. She should win an Oscar.

[Auggie]

3. "Strange"

My very first reaction was "bizarre," so I'm happy I'm not alone. It felt like we were reviewing a slice of time, not film with a usual beginning or end.

The producers did an awesome job with the production too. It began so sterile, so "clean," and then the grittiness of real life slowly emerges and just snowballs. Same goes for the way the music is dealt with, I think -- in the beginning it's treated so lofty and intellectually and then descends to subjectivity and raw emotion.

"Ooddly sympathetic" -- yes!

[wryter2000]

4. My choir director adored it

He talked about it for days

[rogerballard]

5. Cate is a great actress

So versatile and she nailed the part in "Don't Look Up"

[Farmer-Rick]

6. I am not musically inclined

I understood maybe every other word when the characters were talking music.

But it is so well acted and directed that it draws you into a world of competitive symphonic music.