Noah Baumbach’s film based on a book by Don DeLillo has Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in the cast
VENICE – White noise is that constant sound, whether it is that of television or radio not tuned, or air conditioning, or traffic on a road, which is there, not always noticed, but of which many people do not they can do without. This is what it refers to white noisebook by Don DeLillo whose film adaptation directed by Noah Baumbach inaugurated the 79th Venice International Film Festival, on the night of this Wednesday 31st, in competition.
or movie has the perfect combination for the opening of a festival as big as Venice: respected cast and director, current and important themes, but also a certain lightness. Here the tone is sometimes theatrical, exaggerated, absurd, chaotic, reflecting the 80s in which it is set, but completely current for the present day. “I ended up rereading the book during the pandemic and I couldn’t believe how relevant it was for the moment, but also how it would be at all times,” Baumbach said during the press conference after the press session. Greta Gerwig, director, screenwriter, actress and director’s wife, added: “DeLillo was inspired when he wrote it. It’s something he reads and you want to share, it’s emotionally and intellectually exciting.”
Adam Driver is Jack Gladney, a great expert on Adolf Hitler. He is married to Babbette (Gerwig), a flamboyant-haired woman. The family consists of his two children, one of them and one of the couple. Jack and Babbette worry about death, sometimes excessively. She is forgetful, to the point of not remembering the names of the children, and she takes a mystery pill. An accident occurs near the family’s home and a toxic cloud forces them to evacuate.
“The film is about life and death,” said the director. “We create these strategies to avoid death, but sometimes it comes on our side.”
Not only. The film is a great satire of American culture, about academia and pop culture, about the obsession with drugs, highways and hypermarkets, the tendency to talk confidently about things they have no idea about.
White Noise examines how disinformation spreads, even before the internet. And he comments on American cinema itself, with its explosions as moments of euphoria, its superheroes, its outlaws, its families on crazy adventures – there’s a hilarious scene where they try to escape by following a car with a sticker on it. . Second amendment, which deals with the right to bear arms.
The film even ends with a musical number in a supermarket, set to music by LCD Soundsystem. Baumbach said he asked James Murphy to create a captivating and fun song about death.
The “white” of the title also has another meaning: the work is a study and satire specifically of American white, which is seen as the only American culture. The presence of black actors like Don Cheadle and Jodie Turner-Smith, who play college professors, only accentuates this.
White Noise will debut December 30 on Netflix.
Source: Terra
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