Movie reviews

TAR 

Walked out. 6 Oscar nominations?! OK, Cate Blanchett had to master all those nearly monologues but the film is a series of overly lofty, intellectual conversations about music and composers. However much I love classical music, I couldn't stand the blabber and the first 45 minutes had very little music and whatever there was, was unremarkable. The two women in the car scene must allude to "Drive My Car", though the scene in this picture is quite void. The whole thing deals with issues too abstract to give a damn. It basically consists of Tár's conversations with different people which sound like the conductor's monologue carried over from one listener to the next. The theatricality of some scenes and performances is a poor imitation of "Drive My Car". It's all unbearably wooden and bombastic.