“White Noise”, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Edinger, is the opening film, in Competition, of the 79th Venice Biennale International Film Festival, directed by Alberto Barbera (31 August – 10 September). This is Noah Baumbach’s return to the Lido, after presenting “Marriage Story” in 2019. The film is based on the novel “White Noise” (original title “White Noise”, published in Italian by Einaudi) by the American writer Don DeLillo, considered an example of postmodern literature, winner of the National Book Award.
“It is a great honor to open the 79th Venice Film Festival with ‘White Noise’ – declares the director Alberto Barbera – It was worth waiting to be sure that the film was finished in time. Adapted from the great novel by Don DeLillo, Baumbach has created an original, ambitious and compelling work, which plays with measure on several registers: dramatic, ironic, satirical. The result is a film that examines our obsessions, doubts and fears rooted in the 80s, but with very clear to contemporary reality “.
“It is truly wonderful to return to the Venice Film Festival – says Noah Baumbach – and it is an incredible honor to bring ‘White Noise’ as the opening night film. This is a place that loves cinema so much, and it is an emotion and a privilege to join to the incredible filmmakers who presented their films here “.
“White Noise” will be screened on Wednesday 31 August in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia), on the opening night of the Venice International Film Festival. “White Noise” is distributed by Netflix.
At the same time hilarious and terrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, “White Noise” tells the attempts of a contemporary American family in facing the worldly conflicts of everyday life, grappling with the universal mysteries of love and death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
Noah Baumbach, director, screenwriter and producer, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her films include Kicking and Screaming, The Squid and the Whale, My Sister’s Wedding, The Wacky World of Greenberg, Frances Ha, Young Becomes, Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories, Marriage Story, and the documentary, De Palm tree.