TÁR 2022

Directed by Todd Field  DOP Florian Hoffmeister Editing Monika Willi Casting Simone Bär  Staring Cate Blanchett Nina Hoss Noémie Merlant  When the film started my friend turned to me and said there was a 5 minute opening credits. I assumed they were joking or exaggerating. Or maybe there would be something interesting over the top of the credits. But no, there was a black screen and we all had to sit through what felt like over 5 minutes of credits at the start of the film. I almost starting laughing at how weird it was as I’ve never seen anything like that before. Start off the film and I already wanted to leave.  You ever watch a film that you feel like was just made for you? This felt like the opposite of that for me. It was very well made, I enjoyed some of the cinematography and Cate Blanchett was very good. A lot of people are obsessed with her I guess but I never really liked her that much, but I respected her acting in this, she was good. The film really just wasn’t for me. It felt really pretentious and was about characters that also felt just as pretentious. I did like her breakdown towards the end and I did find her character quite interesting, but overall, at the risk of personally offending my friends who love this film, I found it really boring and was kinda just waiting for it to end. I wasn’t a fan of the ending but I don’t think I really understood what was going on so maybe it was really good.  Didn’t think the film would be for me but I held out hope considering how much my friends liked it, my friend I watched it with had already seen it before and loved it, really it was kinda exactly what I expected, a good film but not my kinda thing.  5.9/10