Despite glowing reviews, Todd Field’s drama about a predatory conductor has struggled at the box office. Is this because its protagonist is an unlikeable woman?
unters probably don’t need another reason to skip Tár, Todd Field’s much-discussed tale of a feted conductor who becomes a lightning rod for the #MeToo movement, butwas happy to oblige nonetheless. Tár, the US conductor told the Sunday Times, was “anti-woman” and a personal affront. The film could have told the story of a rapacious male monster, but chose instead to make its lead a female conductor.
‘As a Bipoc pangender person,’ one student tells her, ‘I’m not into cis white male composers like Bach’ It is at this point that a defence lawyer might be moved to cross-examine. Would it have been different if Danni was a man? Isn’t it up to the audience to decide who they like and who they don’t? And, come to that, does it matter? Who’s purely likable anyway? The reason viewers thought Tár was a real person, I suspect, is because that’s how she reads on the screen: as maddeningly variable as the rest of us.
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