Writer-Director Todd Field hasn’t made a film since “Little Children” (2006) and, before that, his incendiary debut “In the Bedroom” (2001).
That is until this year when he started production on “TÁR,” his first film in over 16 years. Cate Blanchett stars in a drama that Field wrote and directed.
Today’s released “teaser,” frankly, doesn’t give us much to chew on. There’s mostly Blanchett in slo-mo exhaling what seems to be cigarette smoke. Then she leads an orchestra for a few seconds. It’ll probably be a good film.
The Playlist’s usually-reliable Gregory Ellwood was saying a few months back that buzz for the film was “reaching operatic levels.”
Here’s the “TÁR” plot synopsis I gathered from someone last November:
“The intellectual drama tells the story of world-renowned Musician Lydia Tár, who is just days away from recording the symphony that will take her to the very heights of her already formidable career. Lydia Tár’s remarkably bright and charming six-year-old adopted daughter Petra has a key role to play here. And when elements seem to conspire against Lydia, the young girl is an important emotional support for her struggling mother.”
Ellwood tends to be more right than wrong, but in 2013 he claimed buzz on “Saving Mr. Banks” was through the roof. Hilariously enough, Jeff Wells flew to London’s BFI to see it early because of Ellwood’s intel.