My Movie Review of "Tár"
My Movie Review of "Tár"
There will likely eventually be a world-famous woman conductor, and she’ll probably be rather similar to Lydia Tár
From my review in Taki’s Magazine:
‘Tár’: The Cult of the Conductor
Steve Sailer
December 14, 2022Tár is a strong art-house drama for older audiences about a #MeToo scandal in the arts that cleverly buys itself the right to be moderately sympathetic toward its ultimately canceled protagonist because writer-director Todd Field has made her not a straight white male but the lesbian conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. …
In real life, although symphony musicians are increasingly female (and Asian), conducting still remains heroically male: Only one of the top 25 orchestras in America (Atlanta) has a woman as principal conductor. …
There hasn’t been one yet, but there will likely eventually be a world-famous woman conductor, and she’ll probably be rather similar to Lydia Tár. Field’s conception of her is eminently plausible, largely because he wrote Tár for Cate Blanchett. And the Australian two-time Oscar winner delivers a performance that might well win her a third Academy Award as the Homo superior conductor. Blanchett has always been slightly superhuman in affect, so she’s quite credible as Berlin’s next worthy successor to that most legendary lineage of conductors, such as Furtwängler, Karajan, Abbado, and Rattle.
Read the whole thing there.
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Originally published in The Unz Review on December 14, 2022.