Review of TÁR (2022) by Olivierpiel — 17 Dec 2022
Not everyone can be a Haneke or a Bergman when it comes to understanding how "classical" music and its performers can be woven into a visual art form such as cinema, but every American critic must pretend they like a pompous and pretentious "movie" about classical music when it collides with Metoo and wokeism...while delivering the usual trite Hollywood story line. As a Frenchman, it is always very satisfying to contemptuously laugh at the ham-fisted snobbishness of wannabe-cultured East-Coast American middle-class audience, the modern version of Molière's "Bourgeois Gentilhomme".
The first 25 minutes are Cate Blanchett talking her pretentious ass off about Mahler, the Amazon river tribes, khabbalism and whatnot We know the purpose of this quite literal "exposition", however this is not cinema: This is torture! A clever filmmaker, say Orson Welles, would have needed one frame to do that exposition!
To give this a 3/10, would mean giving a 14/10 to "the Pianist" by Haneke and maybe 15/10 to Bergman's "Summer Interlude". This should be a minus 100.
This review of TÁR (2022) was written by Olivierpiel on 17 Dec 2022.
TÁR has generally received very positive reviews.
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