Director Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo, released in 1985, has been selected to open the Venice International Film Festival in August, festival director Alberto Barbera announced on Monday.
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Noah Baumbach wrote and directed the film, which looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of a teacher, Jack Gladney, and his fourth wife, Babette. Greta Gerwig, who has a child with Noah Baumbach, is part of the cast, alongside Adam Driver, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy and Jodie Turner-Smith.
“It is a great honor to launch the 79e Venice Film Festival with White Noise, said Alberto Barbera. Baumbach has produced an original, ambitious and convincing work that plays with measure on several registers: dramatic, ironic, satirical. The result is a film that examines our obsessions, doubts and fears as they were captured in the 1980s, but with very clear references to contemporary reality. »
The Netflix-produced film will be among those competing for the Golden Lion, selected by a jury chaired by Julianne Moore. It will be screened for festival-goers at the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema on August 31, at the Lido.
Noah Baumbach had already presented his film Marriage Story at the festival in 2019. It subsequently earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and helped Laura Dern win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
The rest of the programming of 79e Venice International Film Festival will be unveiled this week. The festival will run from August 31 to September 10.