White Noise Red Carpet Highlights, NYFF60

The 60th edition of the New York Film Festival officially kicked off on Friday evening with our Opening Night selection: the North American premiere of Noah Baumbachs White Noise, presented by Campari. In one of the years most gratifyingly ambitious American films, Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) has adapted Don DeLillos epochal postmodern 1985 novel White Noise, long perceived as unfilmable, into a richly layered, entirely unexpected work of contemporary satire. Adam Driver heartily embodies Jack Gladney, an ostentatious Hitler Studies professor and fatheroffour whose comfortable suburban college town life and marriage to the secretive Babette (Greta Gerwig, perfectly donning a blonde mop of important hair) are upended after a horrifying nearby accident creates an airborne toxic event of frightening and unknowable proportions. In a tightrope walk of comedy and horror, Baumbach captures the essence of DeLillos cacophonous popphilosophical nightmare on unbounded consumerism, ecological catastr