White Noise
DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread has long been ogled by Hollywood. Now it gets an elegant, droll treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.
While the movie at first appears to be a family drama, things soon take a dark turn when an 'Airborne Toxic Event' affects their Midwestern community, leading them to evacuate in order to escape the chemical fallout.
The film 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.
It’s a joy in fact, a surreal, very funny, rather prescient account of family, academia, death and supermarkets.
Baumbach, director of ‘Frances Ha’ and ‘Marriage Story’ is just the director for such enigmatic material.