Todd Field Looks Back At The Life Of His Enigmatic Opus ‘Tár’: “Anybody That Watches This Film Is The Final Filmmaker”
deadline.comOscar voting is about to close on an awards season has been one of the most volatile in years. Even though a consensus may seem to have formed around certain titles, there is still a nagging sense that anything could happen — and well might.
It’s entirely appropriate, then, that Todd Field’s Tár — a film about a mercurial artist holding on through a turbulent time — is still holding a dogged course through these choppy seas, with a campaign driven by Cate Blanchett’s universally acclaimed performance as the troubled conductor Lydia Tár.
Here, Field discusses (and declines to discuss) the strengths and the strangeness of a film that has somehow come to mean all things to all people. DEADLINE: How do you begin a movie like Tár?
What were the first steps you took, in terms of setting out this world that you were going to go into? TODD FIELD: It was important that there at least be an effort to create a world for Lydia that hopefully not too many people that spend their time and their lives within that milieu would say was bullsh*t.
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