White Noise (2022)
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- Synopsis:
- 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.
- Actors:
- Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Alessandro Nivola, Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Logan Fry, Lars Eidinger, André Benjamin, Laura Wimbels, Sam Nivola, Hailey Reinke, Mike Gassaway, Matthew Shear, Thomas W Wolf, Sara Marie Fiessinger, May Nivola, Francis Jue, Catherine Collier, Jera Good
- Directors:
- Noah Baumbach
- Producers:
- Noah Baumbach, David Heyman, Uri Singer
- Writers:
- Noah Baumbach, Don DeLillo
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Horror
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Reviews (1) of White Noise
Darkly Satirical Comedy Drama - White Noise review by GI
This is a weirdly stylish and surreal comedy drama that is bizarrely fascinating. Adapted by director Noah Baumbach from a celebrated novel it's set in 1984 and follows the travails of the wholesome American family of Jack (Adam Driver) and Babette (Greta Gerwig) and their assortment of children and stepchildren. The film is essentially a study of the daftness of the modern human condition from the fear of death to relationships and our relationship with the past. Jack is a University lecturer who specialises in the life of Hitler, in itself a preposterous situation, and his family are faced with a Covid 19 allegory in the form of a poisonous gas cloud that threatens to kill people, but this storyline is just a way of highlighting the futility and silliness of the modern suburban way of life with the obsession with YouTube type clips of car crashes (the gas cloud is caused here by a lorry crashing into a train to emphasise the point) and the characters seem to centre life around their trips to a huge, brightly coloured supermarket (the closing credits dance sequence is great). The whole film is a spectacle of darkly weird situations dominated by the great performances of Driver and Gerwig. This will either baffle, bore or be much loved depending on your taste, but it is certainly different.