Please Mr Todd Field, release the short with the scenes. We understand the movie is a final product, we've seen it and it changed us and time has passed. Depriving the world of Nina Hoss and Cate Blanchett's material feels criminal, especially when most people can't afford to fly to Berlin.
I feel like Lydia Tár is doing what she's been taught to do. She learned that burying the truth and running away from it drove her forward in life. That's what got her work, income and awards. She's not Linda from Staten Island, she's Lydia Tár who was taught by Bernstein. She hid where she came from, lied about who taught her to do what she wished, wanted and dreamt of doing and it worked. She buried her true self as she may have felt it wouldn't cut it, it wasn't thought of as being good enough. She even hides her being a woman in a way. She leads the Berlin harmony like von Karajan but she lives with a woman, like Placido Domingo. She loves women, sleeps with many of them and even creeps and leaps on them, like Charles Dutoit. She doesn't wear dresses or skirts or bright shades like many women but dark bespoken suits, like James Levine. When the going gets rough, she does what she knows works : run away, as fast she can. She even thought she could run over a dead body on the road ... I rant a lot about this movie, sorry for writing a lot and many times but there is so much to peel off.
Well, it doesn't matter. Like Cate said, this ain't a horse race. Cate would not want to take away that moment from Michelle. Cate is a highly decorated artist adored across the industry, whereas for Michelle, this could possibly be her best chance to score an Oscar. It would mean so much for her and the community she represents. Besides, Michelle deserves to win for her performance in EEAAO. To quote Cate, it's a cumulation of decades of work in a single movie and it is her who single-handedly lifted a low budget indie into Best Picture category. That movie would go down in history as one of the greats because of her.
Lydia Tár = I Lady Art or I Art Lady = Daily Art I wonder about the meaning of the accent, I think Cate said somewhere she saw the word tár in Budapest. It means a warehouse in Hungarian and also to gather, to pick and to open wide, to put out, to put in the open, to pull the cover, to pull back the web, to tell someone. It also means tear in Icelandic which could be tears streaming down a cheek but also to tear, to break, to rip, to tear off, to tear out.
