Cate Blanchett on playing her most complex character yet in Tár  

Just because she's a ground-breaking female conductor, it didn't mean the film had to portray Tár as a nice person 

Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár. 

There aren’t many actors who could open a film with a scene depicting a full interview with a New Yorker journalist and have it be an utterly engrossing introduction to a character, but the inimitable Cate Blanchett does just that.

Playing the titular role in Todd Field’s Tár, a character study exploring the reputational downfall of the fictional first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, Blanchett is omnipresent throughout the film, in almost every shot, never mind every scene.