NYFF 2022 Film Review: Tár

Director Todd Field’s first film in over 16 years, Tár follows a polymath maestro as her career implodes by her own hand. A stark, thorny confrontation of the ego and arrogance that come hand-in-hand with genius, the stunning devolution of Lydia Tár is abetted by one of the great director-actor pairings. Minor spoilers ahead…