‘TAR’: Cate Blanchett On Todd Field’s “Urgent, Undeniable & Human” Portrait Of A “Haunted” Woman – Venice
deadline.comTÀR, Todd Field’s return to filmmaking after a 16-year stretch, and starring a buzzed about Cate Blanchett, has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this evening.
The Focus Features drama follows Blanchett’s titular conductor, the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra who is at the height of and grappling with her genius, swimming in the abyss of it and the toll it takes on those closest to her while a #MeToo scandal swirls.
Field told the Venice press corps this afternoon that he wrote the part expressly for Blanchett and that both then came up with Nina Hoss for the role of Tár’s partner Sharon in a “Jinx: one, two, three moment.” Quipped Blanchett, “I’ve been stalking Nina for about 10 years now.
It’s unhealthy, but true.”Speaking of her own character, Blanchett said, “I knew from the first syllable of the screenplay that it was really complex and I didn’t know quite what it was.
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