The fairest cries, "We all have loved you, Rael!"

Mature | Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-Con | Tár (Movie 2022)

F/F | for niftyplantlife | 100 words | 2023-03-16 | the lamb | AO3

Lydia Tár/Olga Metkina

Lydia Tár, Olga Metkina

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"I was rooting for you. We were all rooting for you! How dare you?"

LA, not Berlin: perhaps Olga didn't know the phrase, but she knew the sentiment; from purposeful, dictated initial expositions to this trainwreck.

The difference between improvisation and interruption? One is in the score. The other is an assault.

Give me some eyes.

She might as well have smashed the thirteen-year-old's cello there on the concert desk of the Philharmonie, filling her eyes with beautiful splinters.

Conductors' breed is an exchange of attentions. By petting the soloist, Lydia Tár did, inexorably, unlock an interpretation all her own.