Noah Baumbach's White Noise to open this year's Venice Film Festival
The dark comedy based on the seminal novel by Don DeLillo stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig
The Venice Film Festival has officially found its opener in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise. The director’s adaptation of the seminal Don DeLillo novel will see its world premiere at the onset of the festival on August 31—per Variety, this marks the first time a Netflix original film has kicked off the festival. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in the film, with Jodie Turner-Smith, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam and May Nivola, André L. Benjamin, and Lars Edinger rounding out the ensemble cast.
As Variety describes it, the black comedy follows Jack (Driver), a mild-mannered professor type who makes his academic name off of a Hitler studies class he teaches at a liberal arts college in the Midwest. As Jack and his wife Babette (played by Baumbach’s own partner Gerwig) navigate the ins and outs of family like with their brood of four, the menacing prospect of an “airborne toxic event” looms large. Eventually, Jack, Babette and their family must let go of domestic problems and come together to face a greater, more unruly threat.
