Luisita Lopez Torregrosa: Tár gives us a conflicted, multifaceted image, one that’s more compelling and complex, more alluring. - NBCNewsTHINK
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As a rule, in these films and dozens of others, lesbians live miserable lives . They are ostracized and endure tragic, heartbreaking relationships . The films, however sympathetic, leave us with images of toxic women, broken relationships and sad endings, even if much of the misery is due to other people’s cruelty and prejudice.
The decision by director and screenwriter Todd Field to make Tár a lesbian unsettled me. I feared that the film would perpetuate a negative toxic lesbian stereotype. But I changed my mind after seeing it. The film’s core is not so much about a lesbian predator but about the more general use and abuse of power, including sexual power, that Lydia wields at will.But it also explores how that power comes to hurt Lydia as well.
Of course, Blanchett’s Tár has no equal in her rarefied intellectual and artistic world. Everything about her is exceptional: her sexuality, her genius, her career, her custom-made suits. From the outset, her character occupies center stage, literally. The film opens at the elite New Yorker Festival, wherewhile she listens smiling, relaxed in her chair, supremely at ease in her body, in that company.
But it turns out that Tár can’t shake these underlings so easily. She is hounded by a former protégée and paramour, Krista, whom we see only in flashes. Tár has dumped Krista, and refuses to see her, but Krista pleads, sends gifts. When Krista commits suicide, the inquest looks into her relationship with Tár, threatening Tár’s untouchable reputation.
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