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OSCAR FILM: TÁR

  • Sunset Theatre Society 2357 Pooley Street Wells, BC, V0K 2R0 Canada (map)

From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the groundbreaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. We meet Tár at the height of her career, as she's preparing both a book launch and much-anticipated live performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks her life begins to unravel in a singularly modern way. The result is a searing examination of power, and its impact and durability in today's society.

“It’s basically everything you are certain will bore you to death, but it doesn’t here. It’s riveting. The film is 157 minutes long and doesn’t drag for a single second.”

– Deborah Ross, The Spectator

“It is brilliant, and it is singular. Like many great films, it is also, on a certain, deep-down level, a horror movie.”

– Danny Leigh, Financial Times