White Noise (2022)
Director: Noah Baumbach Run Time: 136 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2022
Starring: Adam Driver, Don Cheadle, Greta Gerwig, Jodie Turner-Smith, Raffey Cassidy
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
About the film:
Golden Lion nominee, 2022 Venice International Film Festival.
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an “Airborne Toxic Event”, forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear – his own mortality.
Based on the classic novel by Don DeLillo, White Noise (2022) dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
About the filmmaker:
Noah Baumbach is an American filmmaker and recipient of Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for his films The Squid and the Whale (2005) and Marriage Story (2019). He has written and directed a number of other films, including Margot at the Wedding (2007), While We’re Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017). He is known for collaborations with his partner Greta Gerwig including Frances Ha (2013) and Mistress America (2015), as well as with Wes Anderson, co-writing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
Baumbach adapted his apocalyptic black comedy White Noise (2022) from the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. The film premiered at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival.
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