“Dramatic, ironic, satirical”. This is how Venice’s festival director Alberto Barbera describes the opening film. A well-known German mime also plays.
Venice – A new film by US director Noah Baumbach with Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and Lars Eidinger opens the Venice Film Festival at the end of August. “White Noise” is based on a novel by US author Don DeLillo.
The film is about an American family and their attempts to come to terms with the conflicts of everyday life – while also grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world, the film festival’s press office said on Monday.
Festival director Alberto Barbera said: “Baumbach has created an original, ambitious and compelling piece of art that plays with multiple registers to the right degree: dramatic, ironic, satirical.”
The 79th Venice Film Festival runs from August 31st to September 10th. The president of the jury is the US actress Julianne Moore. dpa
