Director Noah Baumbach on his new film: “I went wild with the characters and celebrated them”
Three years after his last film, ‘Marriage Story’, the acclaimed director returns with a new film in which Adam Driver will once again star and even his partner, the actress Greta Gerwig. In the first interview to promote the film, Baumbach reveals that until recently he didn’t even know what he wanted to write
Noah Baumbach is responsible for some of the most successful films of the last few years, including ‘A Marriage Story’, ‘When We Are Young’, and ‘Meyrovitch Stories’. Now, he is going out into the world with a new film called ‘White Noise’, in honor of which he came to an interview and revealed for the first time that, until recently, he was immersed in a writing barrier.
“It was during the corona virus. I was plunged into uncertainty about the continuation of my path. I was in a place where I didn’t know what I wanted to write. I didn’t know what I was going to do next. It was very scary and frustrating,” he says. But in the end, Baumbach managed to break through the writing barrier, and wrote the script for ‘White Noise’, his new film.
At the center of the plot of his new film is a family from a small town in Ohio, in the 1980s. The father of the family, played by Adam Driver, is the head of the Hitler studies department at a local college. “It’s a film that is actually a satire on academia and popular culture,” explains Baumbach.
As mentioned, the film in question also stars the director’s partner, actress Greta Gerwig, for whom Baumbach divorced his wife, Jennifer Jason Leigh. The two fell in love on the set of the movie “Greenberg”, when they wrote the script together. “She knows how to celebrate life, she is passionate and inspiring. Thanks to her, I have more fun,” he said.
Finally, Baumbach concluded by saying that he is excited for his new film and added: “Usually in my films I go in a different direction, more limited, with the aim of stripping the film down as much as possible. Now, in white noise, I chose to enjoy the characters, celebrate them, and the colors, and of course the return to the sweet eighties.’
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