White Noise by Noah Baumbach is the opening film of the 79th Venice Film Festival

White Noise, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger is the Opening Film, in Competition, of the 79^th Venice International Film Festival within La Biennale di Venezia, directed by Alberto Barbera (31 August > 10 September 2022). This is Baumbach’s return to the Lido; he premiered Marriage Story at the festival in 2019.

Alberto Barbera said: “It is a great honor to open the 79. Venice Film Festival with White Noise. It was worth waiting for the certainty that the film was finished to have the pleasure to make this announcement. Adapted from the great Don DeLillo novel, Baumbach has made an original, ambitious and compelling piece of art which plays with measure on multiple registers: dramatic, ironic, satirical. The result is a film that examines our obsessions, doubts, and fears as captured in the 1980’s,  yet with very clear references to contemporary reality.”

Noah Baumbach said: "It is a truly wonderful thing to return to the Venice Film Festival, and an incredible honor to have White Noise play as the opening night film. This is a place that loves cinema so much, and it’s a thrill and a privilege to join the amazing films and filmmakers that have premiered here."

White Noise will be screened Wednesday August 31^st, in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia), on the opening night of the 79^th Venice Film Festival. White Noise is distributed by Netflix.

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.

Based on the book by Don DeLillo, written for the screen and directed by Noah Baumbach, produced by Noah Baumbach (p.g.a) and David Heyman (p.g.a.). Produced by Uri Singer.

Noah Baumbach (Director/Writer/Producer) was born in Brooklyn, New York. His films include Kicking and Screaming, The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, Frances Ha, While We’re Young, Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Marriage Story, and the documentary, De Palma.