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: The film opens with a text-message exchange between unidentified parties. This exchange, superimposed over a shot of Lydia Tár sleeping on a plane, establishes that she is being watched and monitored by someone with "intimate, malevolent" intent.

: Field describes his screenplays as "living documents" that only truly become active when a performer like Cate Blanchett arrives to interpret the intent. Todd Field

In Tár , text is used to shift perspective and create a sense of unease: : The film opens with a text-message exchange