Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ to Open New York Film Festival
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNoah Baumbach’s black comedy “White Noise” will make its North American debut as the opening night film of the 60th New York Film Festival.Adapted from Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, “White Noise” centers on Adam Driver’s character Jack Gladney, an ostentatious professor of Hitler studies and a father of four.
His comfortable suburban college-town life and marriage to Babette (Greta Gerwig) is upended after a horrifying accident nearby creates an airborne toxic event of frightening and unknowable proportions.In a press release, New York Film Festival leaders described the film as “gratifyingly ambitious” and noted the story was long perceived as unfilmable. “In a tightrope walk of comedy and horror, Baumbach captures the essence of DeLillo’s cacophonous pop-philosophical nightmare on unbounded consumerism, ecological catastrophe and the American obsession with death.
Impeccably matching DeLillo’s and Baumbach’s similarly percussive form of stylized dialogue, ‘White Noise’ is wonderfully abrasive and awe-inspiring, a precisely mounted period piece entirely befitting our modern, through-the-looking-glass pandemic reality,” the announcement says. “White Noise” will premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Sept.
30. Prior to landing on North American soil, the movie will world premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival a month earlier on Aug.
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