White Noise
White Noise
A24, Heyday Films, NBGG Pictures
Netflix
Release dates
August 31, 2022 (Venice)
November 25, 2022 (United States)
December 30, 2022 (Netflix)
Directed by
Noah Baumbach
Written by
Noah Baumbach
Based on
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Produced by
Noah Baumbach, David Heyman and Uri Singer
Starring
Adam Driver as Prof. Jack Gladney
Greta Gerwig as Babette Gladney
Raffey Cassidy as Denise
André Benjamin as Elliot Lasher
Alessandro Nivola
Jodie Turner-Smith as Winnie Richards
Don Cheadle as Prof. Murray Siskind
Lars Eidinger as Arlo Shell
Sam Nivola as Heinrich
May Nivola as Steffie
Cinematography
Lol Crawley
Edited by
Matthew Hannam
Music by
Danny Elfman
Director Noah Baumbach discusses WHITE NOISE
“I read Don DeLillo’s novel in college in the late 1980s, and it felt like now, or the now of then. It captured perfectly the absurdity, horror and madness of America at that time. I reread it again in the early months of 2020 and it felt like now. But the now of now. A few weeks later, the world shut down. I set to adapting the book because I wanted to make a movie that felt as crazy as the world appeared to me. It’s a portrait of a country but it’s also a story of a family, of the chaos they try to hide, of the disasters that befall them, of the way they come together and survive. As DeLillo writes, “Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we keep inventing hope.”
“I wanted to make a movie that was as crazy as the world felt to me right now.”
“WHITE NOISE confronts the idea of death - that the only way to really live your life is to know that it’s going to end. My father gave me the book when I was in college. He was a novelist and loved movies and WHITE NOISE was kind of a synthesis of everything he was into. He passed away in 2019, and when I reread the book that same year, I was highly affected by it. DeLillo presents us with the strategies and routines that we’ve invented to make this seemingly unthinkable idea acceptable, and then unravels those defenses.”
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