Tár

1. Todd Field's first film in sixteen years. Tár marks director Todd Field's return to feature filmmaking after a sixteen-year absence following Little Children (2006), and it was immediately hailed as a triumphant comeback by critics worldwide.

2. Cate Blanchett learned to conduct for the role. To portray Lydia Tár authentically, Cate Blanchett underwent extensive training with conductors and studied classical music deeply, performing many of the conducting scenes herself without the aid of a body double.

3. The title character is entirely fictional. Despite the film's verisimilitude, Lydia Tár is a fictional character, and the film operates as if she is a real historical figure, including fake Wikipedia pages and archival materials created for the production.

4. Filmed on location in Berlin and Germany. The production shot extensively in Berlin, including at the Berlin Philharmonic itself, lending the film an unmistakable authenticity and grounding Lydia's world in a very real center of classical music culture.

5. Six Academy Award nominations. Tár received six Oscar nominations at the 95th Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director for Todd Field, Best Actress for Blanchett, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing.

6. Blanchett speaks German, Russian, and conducts in Mahler's style. In preparation, Blanchett learned functional German and Russian for the role and studied Leonard Bernstein's conducting style, whose influence Lydia Tár frequently references throughout the film.

7. The film's opening sequence is nearly twenty minutes long. Tár opens with an extended New Yorker Festival interview scene that introduces Lydia through her own words and self-mythologizing, a bold structural choice that disorients the audience before the story proper begins.