Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig face suburban apocalypse in White Noise teaser

Here’s the logline from Netflix: “At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.”

Sounds like a tall (if somewhat vague) order, but Driver seems capable of navigating this movie’s many moods. As Jack Gadney, a professor of Hitler studies at the local college, he perfects his driest Dad line delivery. “What does it matter what they’re doing in other cars,” he chides his children, who are observing their fleeing neighbors to know “how scared” they should be. Later, he mysteriously narrates, “May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan.”

Appearing alongside Driver and Gerwig (more like her wig in this movie, right?) are Raffey Cassidy, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, Don Cheadle and André Benjamin (a.k.a. André 3000). White Noise is Netflix’s first film to open the Venice Film Festival; it’s also the first film ever to open both Venice (in late August) and the New York Film Festival (in October). The film does not yet have a premiere date on the streaming platform, though the teaser promises it’s “coming soon.”