Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett disagrees with suggestions by leading female conductor Marin Alsop that her new movie 'Tar' is "anti-woman".

Lydia Tár is a fictional creation from the mind of actor/director Todd Field. He is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who has a gap of 16 years between this and his ...

Tár is the sort of film that leads to long, knotty conversations afterwards, to teasing out what one scene says and what another one means. Is she right when she indicates, at the beginning of the film – which is structured around a public interview with Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, in a handy on-screen info dump – that she is somehow outside of gender? “I just wanted the observant Sharon to be in power of the situation and not being like… In refusing to be definitive about anything other than Lydia Tár’s intelligence, talent and ability to manipulate, it gives the viewer lots to chew on. She understands that not every viewer might find an easy explanation to the pair’s relationship, with some feeling Sharon is a victim. She’s lived life and she has chosen a partner that is not the easiest to be with. The 10-minute one-shot at Juilliard was rehearsed by Field and Blanchett a number of times before being filmed, and Blanchett described it as “much more akin to being on stage”. But what does that mean in the long run for the relationship? But because he’s the filmmaker that he is, I think you get that stuff homeopathically and perhaps if you’d cut into that scene, you wouldn’t – it would have made that stuff too front and centre.” The film follows Lydia for three weeks as she wrestles with what’s going on in her personal and work life. Several of the Australian star’s scenes (and she’s on screen nearly the entire time) are one-shot scenes, including a 10-minute sequence early on, when Lydia visits a class in Juilliard in New York City. Lydia Tár is a fictional creation from the mind of actor/director Todd Field.

Todd Field's captivating and complex thriller demands that the viewer pay close attention, but the reward is well worth the effort.

Lydia Tár is a brilliant conductor living and working in Germany with the celebrated Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. It’s only the second week of January, but Tár might turn out to be the best film we see this year. The first in 13 years from writer and director Todd Field (a long sabbatical even by auteur standards) it stars a never-better Cate Blanchett as the title character.

The 53-year-old Australian-born Hollywood star plays Lydia Tár, who, in the film's plot, rises to become the first-ever female conductor of a German orchestra.

Blanchett won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Katherine Hepburn Blanchett plays a manipulative conductor in the film Blanchett says Tár is about 'power'. Saying that Alsop was entitled to her opinion and that she had the upmost respect for the conductor, Blanchett described the film as 'a mediation on power and power is genderless.' Cate Blanchett has come under fire for her Golden Globe winning role in the new film Tár Pictured: The Aussie Hollywood star on the red carpet for the premiere of the film in London earlier this month. [Cate Blanchett](/tvshowbiz/cate_blanchett/index.html) has come under fire for her [Golden Globe](/tvshowbiz/golden_globes/index.html) winning role in the new film Tár.

Tom Ford, Simu Liu and Quannah Chasinghorse will also co-chair the Green Carpet Fashion awards, honoring sustainability in fashion and entertainment.

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"TAR" star Cate Blanchett responded to fans deeming her a lesbian icon after also starring in "Carol" and "Notes on a Scandal."

However, Blanchett later told BBC Radio 4 (via [The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tar-cate-blanchett-sexist-marin-alsop-b2260946.html)) that the film is “a meditation on power and power is genderless.” [previously told IndieWire](https://www.indiewire.com/2022/10/cate-blanchett-todd-field-interview-tar-1234769464/) that the character of Lydia was born out of a conversation with writer-director Field in September 2020 about the state of the world. “The character came out of those rich conversations,” Blanchett said. We had a lot of time to discuss their backstory in great detail and to make that manifest in what they did,” said Blanchett. “What I love about the story that Todd wrote and the way he directed it and the way we approached it is their same-sex relationship just was. “Yeah, baby!

Cate Blanchett reacted well to several queer outlets calling her titular character in Tár a 'lesbian icon'. Cate said that the importance of the film is not ...

In an interview with Attitude Magazine, when Cate was told that there were several queer outlets and fans who named her character Lydia Tar as a "queer icon", she exclaimed, "Yeah, baby! She said that the importance of the film does not lie in the fact that Lydia is a female conductor, and emphasised that director Todd Field laid no specific emphasis on the same-sex relationship of Lydia. The subject matter of the film is not on her gender and sexuality, but her power, explained the actor. Cate Blanchett reacted to the 'lesbian icon' status given by several queer fans. In the film, Cate plays a queer conductor Lydia Tár, whose career comes spiraling down after several accusations come to light. Cate Blanchett reacted well to several queer outlets calling her titular character in Tár a ‘lesbian icon’.

Cate Blanchett's career and recent turn in Todd Fields' "Tár" has earned her a reputation for helping bring LGBTQ characters to life on the big screen.

"When we made 'Carol,' there were so few films that were moving over into the mainstream that dealt with same-sex relationships and also picking it apart, [to show that] it's not a monolithic experience," Blanchett said. "What I love about the story that Todd [Field] has wrought and the way he's directed it and the way we approached it is it was just their same-sex relationship — it just was," Blanchett explained. [Attitude Magazine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMTOJozWeCU) to have a chat about the film.

Cate Blanchett has said her new film Tár is a "meditation on power" which she feels is "genderless" after an acclaimed female conductor branded the approach ...

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