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Tár, Elvis, and Music at the Oscars

The Pitchfork Review

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Movie Review - Is This Really a Loud Movie?

Hilder literally wrote music for the scene to be acted at a certain BPM, which then influences how we feel about it. It made all of the quiet parts of the movie feel so much more intense. One of my favorite scenes is when Lydia Tar comes home to her wife played by Nina Haas. She says something like, let's bring this down to 60 beats per minute and puts on like this Count Basie record. And then Nina Haas says like actually it's 53 beats per minute. I know what you mean by quiet. I guess I think there's so much in this movie about noise and background noise and that something like an eerie scream.

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