First in the cinema, then only a few weeks later on Netflix – after “Nothing New in the West”, “White Noise” now comes to similar honours. Here is the trailer for the star-studded dramedy, rated with a strong 4 stars by FILMSTARTS:
We’re familiar with this procedure by now in relation to the streaming service’s big, prestigious titles: With “White Noise”, the new film by “Marriage Story” director Noah Baumbach, it’s the same as with the German Oscar candidate “Nothing New in the West” a few weeks ago. White Noise” will also receive a limited theatrical release before its Netflix premiere.
So it looks as if Netflix is also expecting a lot of awards attention from “White Noise”. That this hope is not unfounded is confirmed by the official FILMSTARTS review of the emphatically overstaged tragicomedy with its intellectually polished oneliners. Our chief editor Christoph Petersen gives it a strong 4 out of 5 stars. In his conclusion, he calls the film “a simultaneously bitter but also playful satire about the (irrational) fear of death”.
The film stars Adam Driver, known from “Star Wars 7-9”, “The Report” and of course “Marriage Story”, and Greta Gerwig (“Frances Ha”) as a married couple with a turbulent family life. Other important roles have been cast with Don Cheadle (War Machine in the MCU), André Benjamin (“Four Brothers”) and Jodie Turner-Smith from “Queen & Slim” as well as the German stars Lars Eidinger (“Nahschuss”) and Barbara Sukowa (“Enkel für Anfänger”).
⚠️ Does not go according to plan ⚠️
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“White Noise” opens in selected cinemas in this country on 8 December 2022. Netflix subscribers will then be able to stream the film exclusively from 30 December 2022.
THIS IS WHAT “WHITE NOISE
IS ABOUT.
In the mid-1980s, in a small university town somewhere in the US province: history professor Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) is a world-renowned expert on Adolf Hitler, revered by his colleagues and students. Jack is married for the fourth time to Babbette (Greta Gerwig). Together they raise four children (including Raffey Cassidy from “The Killing Of A Sacred Deer”) – the youngest is their son, the others are from previous relationships.
The family leads a comfortable, happy life. Although there is actually no reason for it, both spouses are tormented by irrational fears about their own deaths. This goes so far that Babbette (Greta Gerwig) secretly takes pills whose name, let alone composition, is not even known to her doctor.
Don Cheadle (l.) and Adam Drive
After a goods train carrying toxic materials crashes into a hazmat tanker truck, a gigantic explosion occurs and a massive black cloud brews over the area. Jack tries to convince his family that there is nothing to worry about. Eventually, however, panic sets in for him too. On their flight from the cloud, the Gladneys get from one absurd situation to the next …
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