How TÁR Is Turning Sophie Kauer from a Classical Music Phenomenon Into a Movie Star

“I’ve never been one of those girls,” Sophie Kauer says, “who’s like, ‘I want to be an actress so badly.’” It’s a fall morning in Midtown Manhattan, and despite Kauer’s assurances that acting was never her dream, the London native is here for just that reason. It’s the day that TÁR, the new film from director Todd Field about the complicated life of a world-famous conductor, will premiere at the New York Film Festival, and whether or not it was the plan, Kauer is about to become a movie star. In TÁR—which the New York Times called a “cruelly elegant,… Read Full Article