★★★1/ 2 Ah, how terrible the world of classical music, so lofty, so full of intrigue and good manners, so hypocritical. Anyway, those are our prejudices and, although Leopold Stokowski has acted with Mickey Mouse, they will continue. It is a good field, then, to disarm others. The tale that Tár tells is simple: someone brilliant and all-powerful, an artist who is also a lucid mentor and has strong opinions of her own about life, falls from the top due to an accusation of sexual abuse. One could choose sequences from the film where Cate Blanchett manages to create her character in a virtuoso way. Example: the interview at the beginning, where the actress acts as someone who acts to be spontaneous. Example: the destruction of Wokism in the person of an imbecile student, in a long sequence shot. Behind it there is a power game where that-actor-who-always-plays-the-bad-in-superheroes is the-bad-of-the-realistic-drama. Fortunately, the film does not lack humor, irony or defense of the (uselessness) of art, small or large. But don’t fall for it: this is satire dressed as an English butler asking not to be taken (so) seriously. And if Blanchett deserves the Oscar, it’s for drunkenly playing an accordion loudly or kicking a guy to the ground more than for mimetically taking a baton. Ah, but cinema at last.
