Cate Blanchett to star in Todd Field's next film.
Oct 4, 2022 8:36:51 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 4, 2022 8:36:51 GMT
Never has an actress used her hands like Cate Blanchett - I've said this before - she is so technically peerless with her physicality that you can read entire performances through her body acting - she grabs that metronome like she's grabbing somebody's neck .....
Just her playing a conductor is in itself brilliant - it's like Hopkins in The Father with his "hesitating" way of speaking dovetailing exactly with a man who's mind was slipping away so you were never quite sure where the character and actor were meeting.
Blanchett's hands just in this trailer are like knives or thunderous hammers, they are also her ears (literally, 1:47) and........ a gun (literally, 2:10)
.....it's like Cate Blanchett's greatest hits condensed to 2 and 1/2 minutes tbh
Look man, I don't want to be ridiculous (too late) but people on this board are always jizzing over things they said (or predicted, whatever) so watch at 2:06 where the character Lydia Tár -talks about her hands -- this is just so dovetailing with Blanchett's own acting technique - in such a Meta-way - it's too perfect.
I wrote - years ago - about this subconscious effect Blanchett's acting often has where she is like the film's director and not an actress at all - but where she's crafting the performance visually through her subliminal, cumulative acting choices - it is her visual palette NOT (often) the director.
She "conducts" her best performances.......so to speak.
There are several posts about this (by me - um) on MAR in the Mrs. America thread and about the last scene - one of the greatest acted scenes ever btw - in Blue Jasmine (by me, I'll stop really) on here.......... just about her visual palette and her damn hands ffs
I know, I know ..........she's playing a conductor - so this is a penetrating look into the obvious:
- but no one ever talked about her f'n hands on here before Tár - except me and it goes back years before this movie - or this video - even existed...........it's like if you wanted to make a film for her you of course would write a movie and have her play a conductor - and include a scene where the character talks about it too (!) ................or to use a Seinfeld reference...........maybe you could write one where she played............. a hand model I guess