MOVIE NEWS – TÁR, already piled high with awards, was awarded with three BAFTAs. The title character Cate Blanchett and director Todd Field took home the award, the latter also received recognition as a producer. With this, the number of awards for the film increased to almost sixty in addition to the 238 nominations, and the rain of awards probably did not stop, as the production was also nominated for six Oscar®.

The film’s heroine is a brilliant conductor who is preparing for the biggest challenge of her life, but is blinded by her own success and power, which ultimately leads to her downfall. TÁR is the most praised and at the same time the most controversial work of recent years.

The completion of TÁR was already extraordinary, because director Todd Field and editor Monika Willi assembled the final version in the middle of nowhere, in a nunnery. As Field told IndieWire, it was originally going to be shot in Vienna, which is Willi’s home and home of Gustav Mahler, whose major work, Symphony No. 5, will feature prominently in the film. However, due to the pandemic, Vienna was closed, then London would have been the next location, but by the time the crew would have moved, the English capital was also put under a complete quarantine.

Field says in retrospect that the film owes a lot to covid, because they ended up in a 15th-century Scottish monastery that used to be a nunnery. “We hardly had any contact with the outside world, we cut almost continuously every day of the week according to a very strict work schedule,” says the director. “It’s also thanks to the spirit of the place that we lived almost like the sisters used to.” After the morning coffee, we went for a run separately, during which we did not meet a single created soul in the open field, along the hedges, and after that we cut all day.”

According to Willi, the monk’s solitude allowed him to concentrate on one thing, that is, to hit the rhythm of the film exactly, which in this way turned into a unique piece of music. “I had to transform the different tempos of the characters into a single composition. We put together the big whole from a lot of small details, cruelly making sure that the tension is not lost for a single moment. It was a great pleasure to see that Todd, who always strives for perfection, found the ideal workplace within the six hundred-year-old walls.”

(TÁR – already in domestic cinemas!)

Source: UIP