#349: Conduct Unbecoming, Pt. 2 — TÁR

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The contemporary setting of Todd Field’s new TÁR has inspired some to label it a movie about the modern idea of “cancel culture,” but the film’s baseline ideas about sex and power are more timeless, and its story of a woman using her social influence to manipulate others, and her attendant downfall, links it specifically to 1988’s DANGEROUS LIAISONS. While we could have easily spent this entire episode and then some dissecting and debating the many small, nuanced details that bring TÁR to life, we do eventually bring our discussion around to the other film in this pairing to consider what it shares with DANGEROUS LIAISONS in its depiction of feminine power in a patriarchal society, sexual gamesmanship, and public humiliation as comeuppance. Plus, we use Your Next Picture Show to consider the other highlights of Todd Field’s small but mighty directorial filmography. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about DANGEROUS LIAISONS, TÁR, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, leaving a short voicemail at 773-234-9730, or commenting on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes and more. Outro music: Mahler Symphony No. 5 Next Pairing: Martin McDonagh’s IN BRUGES and THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,
0:18.0	or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.7	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	It's very difficult to keep the line
0:34.5	between the past and the present
0:36.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:50.4	Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie that we've podcasted,
0:53.6	a bit to a classic film
0:54.5	in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps, here again with
0:58.2	Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias, and Genevieve Koski. On last week's episode, we talked about
1:03.2	dangerous liaisons, a story of power, sex, manipulation, and those who push it all too far
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