Tár

Lydia Tár is about to record Mahler’s Fifth in Berlin, and she is also about to be asked, in public, about the people she has discarded. Field builds the first hour as a life that looks finished: the suit, the Q&A, the apartment. Cate Blanchett plays the conductor as someone who can win a room and cannot hear the recording that will end it. Nina Hoss is the concertmaster and the wife. The Focus trailer is the podium. The film is the video that will not stay private.