The Venice Film Festival will open with “White Noise” by Noah Baumbach.

The Venice International Film Festival featured Noah Baumbach’s Netflix film as the opening film for a 2022 release. white noise.

It marks Baumbach’s return to the Lido after three years. The wedding story It debuted in Venice to receive six Oscar nominations and one win.

white noise stars The wedding story Guide Adam Driver as a teacher in the Midwest through a very dramatic year. Based on Don DeLillo’s critically acclaimed 1985 novel, the first time Baumbach didn’t work from his own original idea, the film stars Greta Gerwig, Andre Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle.

Baumbach adapted and produced DeLillo’s novel for the screen. white noise With David Heyman and Uri Singer.

“It is a great honor to open the 79th Venice Film Festival white noise“, said Alberto Barbera, artistic director of the Venice Film Festival. “Adapted from the great novel by Don DeLillo, Baumbach has created an original, ambitious and compelling work of art that hits many registers: dramatic, ironic, satirical. The result is a film that examines our obsessions, doubts and fears captured in the 1980s, but with a very clear reference to modern reality.

Baumbach called it an “incredible honor” to open this year’s Venice Film Festival. “This is a place that loves cinema, and it’s a thrill and a privilege to join the incredible films and filmmakers that have debuted here.”

The Netflix drama had wide circulation in Venice this year. The streaming giant will look to use the Lido festival platform to promote the film around the world and position Baumbach as a contender for the 2023 awards.

Venice will announce its full competition schedule on Tuesday, July 26th. Several other Netflix movies are vying for Lido this year, including Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Mexican epic. Bard, a false chronicle of a handful of truths s BlondeA fictionalized account of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe, by New Zealand director Andrew Dominick, with knives out s no time to die With Ana de Armas as Monroe.

The 79th edition of the Italian festival will be held from August 31 to September. 10