Oscar 2023. The Australian star has won the critics’ award and the Baftas for interpreting the rise and fall of a famous conductor.
It came as no surprise that Cate Blanchett, one of cinema’s most acclaimed stars, was told by director Todd Field that he “had written a script for her.” The unusual thing was that, in the words of the same filmmaker, ‘Tár’ had not been filmed with another actress. “I’m still processing the experience, not only because it speaks to a lot of things I’ve been thinking about lately, but because I felt so expanded being in Todd’s orbit. It was a very, very fluid, dangerous and alive process to make the film, ”he tells Los Angeles Times.
In the film, the Australian actress plays Lydia Tar, a brilliant German conductor who sees her career unravel amid accusations of abuse of power. For the character, she trained with the conductor Natalie Murray Beale and received piano, accent and language lessons. In a production note sent to the press, the director praises the actress. “The privilege of collaborating with an artist of this caliber is impossible to adequately describe. In every way possible, this is Cate’s movie.”.
Blanchett, 53, has two Oscars, one for best actress for Blue Jasmine and another as a supporting actress for The Aviator. Tár has given him the critics’ award, the Volpi Cup in Venice and, a week ago, the Baftawhich is why the European press pointed out that he had “snatched” any opportunity for Ana de Armas for Blonde.
Although the film has a wink about the accusations against Placido Domingo, Blanchett ruled out that it has a direct relationship. “There is no specific inspiration in a specific case. The film has been written for a long time and, from what Todd tells me, it has always been a female protagonist, ”she replied to El Mundo. “The important thing is not to condemn anyone, but to see why it has happened and do what is necessary so that it does not happen again. We suffer from a patriarchal society, but I trust that we will never experience its opposite.”
“When I read the script for the first time, I was deeply depressed. ” Photo: diffusion
Tár and the Shipibo-Konibo communities
The film begins with an interview in The New Yorker Festival, where Lydia Tár reviews her career. It is said that she spent years specializing in the music of the Ucayali Valley, in eastern Peru, with the Shipibo-Konibo communities. the healer Elisa Vargas Fernandez appears in the film. “The filmmakers wanted to have a meaningful collaboration with their culture and their artists. The sound designer sent his nephew Zackiel Lewis-Griffiths (graduated from the School of African and Oriental Studies) to Ucayali to record her singing an original Ícaro that she offered to the film”, says the production.
This first part deals with the past of the protagonist. “I was fascinated by this portrait of a woman falling apart, but I also responded to the script to rhythmic level through music”, says the actress. “The real challenge for me was getting into the head of someone other than themselves. She has forgotten, she has moved away from ‘why?’ and, in trying to establish a legacy, she has severed her connection to music. Tár is someone with a powerful inner critic who subconsciously adheres to the idea that if you are perfect, no one can harm you. But of course perfection is impossible in art. Art is full of imperfections and gray areas, and therein lies the problem.”
TO Variety, Blanchett He tells: “When I first read the script, I was deeply depressed, beside myself with the tragedy, the descent. But then, playing her, I felt the polar opposite of that.”. On March 12 he could get his third Oscar.
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