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'Tár' starts pianissimo, ends fortissimo : Pop Culture Happy Hour Writer-director Todd Field's fantastic new film Tár stars Cate Blanchett as a world-famous composer and conductor. Intelligent, charismatic and supremely confident, she's been able to orchestrate her own life, and those of the people around her. But a reckoning is coming.

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'Tár' starts pianissimo, ends fortissimo

'Tár' starts pianissimo, ends fortissimo

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Cate Blanchett stars in director Todd Field's latest film Tár.

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Writer-director Todd Field's fantastic new film Tár stars Cate Blanchett as a world-famous composer and conductor. Intelligent, charismatic and supremely confident, she's been able to orchestrate her own life, and those of the people around her. But a reckoning is coming.