According to cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, writer/director Todd Field often expressed his desired aesthetic for TÁR in a series of repeated Field-isms: Let’s just witness.
Don’t gild the lily.
Don’t make it look like a movie with a capital “M.” In other words, make the style invisible.
However, Hoffmeister’s work was far from invisible to his peers, who bestowed an Oscar nomination upon the German Dp for his work on the film.
TÁR—Field’s first feature in more than 15 years—follows the downfall of a composer/conductor played by Cate Blanchett as she prepares a career-capping performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic.
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