Australian actress Cate Blanchett won the second acting prize of her career in Venice on Saturday night, for her role as a power-drunk conductor in Tarby Todd Field.
At 53, the actress known for her feminist commitment delivers a marmoreal performance in this drama that evokes contemporary questions about identity, the abuse of power, or “cancel culture”.
” Thank you for […] this festival which once again invites the public into the halls, it’s marvellous,” said Cate Blanchett when she received her award.
“I won’t be here with this award without a wonderful director, this award also belongs to Todd Field […] a great filmmaker who knows where to put the camera every second,” she added.
Actress and feminist activist accustomed to juries and awards, Cate Blanchett is a polymorphic performer, capable of playing an elf princess, Bob Dylan, as well as the great bourgeois.
In Tarthis tall blonde, with a diaphanous face, plays an ultra-famous conductor, in a relationship with a violinist from her orchestra, who will be overtaken by her past.
A role that takes a complex look at the denunciation of harassment or the abuse of power by women over their subordinates, and echoes the commitments of the artist.
Fifteen years before this role as an artist, she had already won the prize in Venice for I’m not There of Todd Haynes, where she embodied, crossing the frontier of the genre, another musician, Bob Dylan.