Actor Todd Field received critical acclaim, Oscar attention, and promising box office for his directorial debut, 2001’s “In the Bedroom.

It became the fourth film in history to be named the best of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the London Film Critics' Circle as well as the National Society of Film Critics.

Production [ edit ] The Dresden Philharmonic was used as a stand-in for Lydia Tár's Berlin Philharmonic. It had a limited theatrical release on October 7, 2022, then expanded to wide release on October 28. Field's script is dazzling in its conversational flow, its insider dexterity, its perception of how power in the world actually works. In September 2021, Nina Hoss and Noémie Merlant joined the cast, and Hildur Guðnadóttir became the film's composer. And so hopefully, by having this character not be a male, it might afford the opportunity to look at power for what it is, which is something that anyone that touches it is going to be corrupted [by].

Since its premiere at last year's Venice Film Festival, Todd Field's film Tár has been lauded by critics as one of the best films of the year and has bagged six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that Tár is "a film about cancel culture, making it the rare piece of art that looks squarely at this social phenomenon that has roiled so many of America's meaning-making institutions. Newcomer Zethphan Smith-Gneist Holds the Screen With Tár Star Cate Blanchett in Film's Most Talked-About Scene". These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.Tár marks yet another career peak for Blanchett—many are likely to argue her greatest—and a fervent reason to hope it's not sixteen more years before Field gives us another feature.