Reel life or real life? New film ‘Tár’ appears to borrow from former Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop’s biography

“Tár,” the buzzy new feature film starring Cate Blanchett about a pioneering — and predatory — female classical music conductor, has become an unwelcome and troubling distraction for Marin Alsop, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s music director laureate. The movie is entirely fictitious, as the writer-director Todd Field makes clear.