Cate Blanchett in Tár

Tár cannot be taken seriously, yet Field tells his story solemnly. That acute accent over the letter a in the film’s title denotes European sophistication for Blanchett’s character, Lydia Tár, an American-born internationally sought-after classical-music conductor who is also a snobby lesbian (she insults others as “robots”) verging on paranoid schizophrenia.