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Linda Tarr, known by her stage name Lydia Tár, is the titular main protagonist of the 2022 film Tár. Tár is a disgraced American orchestral music composer and conductor whose career and life are torn apart due to her history of sexual misconduct.
She was portrayed by British award-winning actress Cate Blanchett, who also played Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Marissa Wiegler in Hanna, Penelope in Family Guy, Lady Tremaine in the live-action Cinderella remake and Hela in Thor: Ragnarok.
Biography[]
Tár was born in Staten Island and worked her way up to fame from her humble beginnings, until she became the leading conductor of an orchestra she led in Berlin. She married the orchestra's concert master, Sharon Goodnow, with whom they adopted a daughter, Petra. Tár would target various women under her direction and employment to sexually abuse under the threat of ruining their careers.
The earliest confirmed victim of Tár is Krista Taylor, a musician Tár mentored. When Krista turned against Tár, Tár got her blacklisted from all opportune venues of employment Krista could afford. She never got over it, mailing a scribbled and autographed first-edition copy of Vida Sackville-West's novel Challenge, with a dedication meant to threaten she'll report Tár. Tár ended up destroying the copy of the book.
Tár then targeted her assiatant, Francesca Lentini, who was much more silent about the abuse and complied with Tár's demands to cover up Krista's messages to the both of them. In the meantime, Tár set her sights on musician Olga Metkina and planned to keep Olga in her orbit.
When Krista killed herself out of devastation from having no allies, her parents planned to sue Tár. After an upset from a student at Julliard protesting discrimination at Tár's lecture, and her assistant conductor Sebastian spread news of Tár's crimes when he was fired, the lawsuit was the beginning of Tár disgrace. Francesca resigned from not taking Sebastian's place, Sharon separated from Tár and barred her from seeing Petra, and the New York Post ran an article on the reports.
Tár was stressed into suffering hyperacusis, which kept her from composing a piece for Petra. She found Francesca cleared out her apartment and moved, except leaving an edited draft of Tár's biographical manuscript Tár on Tár, which Francesca retitiled Rat on Rat. When trying to follow Olga, Tár narrowly escaped being mauled by a dog and ended up hitting her head. She lied she was attacked, but failed to get attention for it.
When Tár, while attending a deposition for the lawsuit in the U.S., failed to abuse Olga when Olga rejected her harassment much more aggressively, she retreated to Staten Island again and reminisced on her glory days. Her brother Tony jeers at her for losing herself in stardom. Tár is last scene finding employment for composing video game music in the Phillipines. When she wants a massage and is sent to a brothel, one of the women there numbered "5" stares Tár down, resulting in Tár fleeing and vomiting.