Focus Features has released the latest trailer for Cate Blanchett’s latest, TÁR, directed by the great–and infrequent director–Todd Field.
TÁR “examines the changing nature of power, its impact and durability in our modern world.” Well, that’s awfully vague… In TÁR, Cate Blanchett stars as a renowned composer on the verge of completing what could be her masterpiece. As suggested in the trailer, her struggle with time as both a conductor and an aging woman prove to take a physical and psychological toll.
Cate Blanchett’s performance in Todd Field’s TÁR seems prime for an Oscar nomination. This wouldn’t be much of a surprise, considering Blanchett has seven nods and two wins already (for Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine). Director Todd Field, too, has a history of leading his performers to Oscar nominations.
That history, granted, is brief. Todd Field has only directed two features in his entire career: 2001’s In the Bedroom and 2006’s Little Children, which earned a combined eight Academy Award nominations (five for acting). That means TÁR will be Todd Field’s third film in just over two decades; it’s also his first pairing with Cate Blanchett.
Field has circled around numerous projects in the interim, though, most notably an adaptation of the documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball, about a minor league team headed by Bing Russell, Kurt’s father. This would be a fitting choice, considering–ready for this fun fact?–Todd Field had a hand in creating Big League Chew!
Todd Field’s next project is Hulu’s The Devil in the White City, based on the remarkable book that interweaves the stories of architect Daniel Burnham and serial killer H.H. Holmes in Chicago. Keanu Reeves will star as Burnham.
TÁR will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival next month before being released theatrically on October 7.