i actually really enjoyed this as a (politically flawed) biopic. very watchable. i would like to think maybe nolan is watchable when he's given a mostly prewritten story and some boundaries but even within that some of his creative additions here are extremely cringe. a bit like fanfiction.net but about physics to be honest. still, i can't deny that I found it mostly a well told and enjoyable experience
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TÁR 2022
for a film about classical music, directly drawing inspiration from bernstein's own democratising performances of mahler, it's remarkable how passionless and stale the spaces and interactions in this film feel. and yet that is precisely the film's strength
the world it portrays is devoid of energy and instead we see the life tár has constructed; a world of petty politics, procedure, and the abuse she can exercise within it. everyone and everything feels suffocated by tár whose own narcissism and…