Tar

There are films which stay with you to the point of obsession: Tar is one of them. A needed film that will continue to conjure up many conversations to come. Intelligent and clever, audacious and ambitious, the film flies above the textures of contemporary topics, to propose a hypnotic portrait of a broken and haunted woman. Rather than being a mere sociological commentary, the film succeeds as the existential depiction of a human being fallen from grace, and a clairvoyant examination of systems of power. Tar is also a cinematic triumph, for its ability to render words obsolete, for its use of rhythm, and its capacity to let the audience decide for themselves. And of course, Blanchett is spectacular: no sign of watching an actor ‘act’ here, but the fascination to be transported by a complex palette of states of being.