{"id":19896,"date":"2022-09-23T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=172535"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:23:08","slug":"what-is-the-film-tar-about-and-when-is-it-released","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/what-is-the-film-tar-about-and-when-is-it-released\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the film T\u00c1R about and when is it released?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Michael Beek\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 23 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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You\u2019d be forgiven for having never heard of world-famous composer\/conductor Lydia T\u00e1r, the first woman to become chief conductor of a German orchestra. That\u2019s because she doesn\u2019t really exist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer\/director Todd Field makes a long-awaited return to the directing chair after his riveting dramas In the Bedroom\u00a0<\/em>and Little Children<\/em>, with this fascinating psychological drama about the very essence of making music. More specifically, perhaps, it\u2019s about a woman artist stepping into a role with connotations of male dominance, even tyranny.<\/p>\n

T\u00c1R<\/em> stars Cate Blanchett in the title role, and it\u2019s a role Field wrote expressly with the Australian actor in mind. The word on the street is that it\u2019s another mesmerising performance from Blanchett, who is surely the greatest of her generation.<\/p>\n

What music features in T\u00c1R?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

<\/strong>The film is of course a fiction, though it could so easily be true. Oscar-winning composer<\/a><\/strong> Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir has composed the score, but the musical world of T\u00c1R is anything but traditional. Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir scores the film of course, but she also creates the music we see (ansd hear) being composed in the film by Lydia T\u00e1r. In that sense Lydia T\u00e1r is played not only by Cate Blanchett, but by Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir also.<\/p>\n

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