TÁR: Women In Film Fest @ FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Sunday 5. April at 20:30 - 23:20
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Todd Field | 2022 | USA | 2h38m + 10 minute intermission | English and German language with English subtitles
TÁR is film number 24 in FOMO’s extended Women in Film Week, a program built around female performance, female subjectivity, and the many ways women’s stories are written, performed, directed, and brought to life on screen.
Todd Field’s TÁR follows Lydia Tár, a world-famous conductor at the height of her career, as she prepares a major recording while navigating the institutions that sustain her authority. The film stays close to her, tracking rehearsals, conversations, and small decisions that begin to accumulate into something that comes impossible to contain. It moves through elite cultural spaces, conservatories, orchestras, and foundations, where reputation, influence, and access shape what can be said and what remains unspoken.
Cate Blanchett builds Lydia through a masterful combination of gesture, speech, and domination over any room she walks into. The performance is not about likeability. It is about power, and what happens to someone when they grow too used to having it.
The film has been widely discussed for how it handles authorship, accountability, and the relationship between artistic achievement and personal conduct. It does not offer a clear position. Instead, it places the audience inside a system where status protects, then begins to fracture.
WHY IT’S INCLUDED IN THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM: I'm showing TÁR because it centres a woman in a position of institutional power and refuses to simplify what that means, even in today's enlightened age. Lydia is not framed as an exception or a symbol. She is allowed to be brilliant, controlling, flawed, and difficult to read, which makes the film a sharp addition to a program focused on how women have been traditionally written and seen on screen.
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left as soon as you enter next to the karaoke booth. FOMO is one flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235
T&Cs: Guests must enter the Bazari by 23:00 to gain access to the FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar. If the Atoneli St entrance is locked you can get in via the side entrance on Sulkhanishvil St between 21:00 and 23:00. We close at 02:00 each evening. No refunds are issued unless we cancel the screening ourselves.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
