Comedy drama or drama with comedy, Background noisefrom Noah Baumbachwith Adam Driver Y Greta Gervigit’s about ecological concerns, America’s terror of the unknown, and a perfectly normal family until it’s no longer normal.
Netflix It will debut in streaming only on December 30, it is the adaptation of the novel by Don DeLillo, a best seller since it was published in 1985.
Baumbach repeats the leading actor of marriage story, also from Netflix and also released like this in Venice, but in 2019. It focuses on a wedding at the same time, but under different circumstances. It’s not about getting divorced, it’s about being together.
Jack (Driver) and Babette (Gerwig, who in real life is married to Noah Baumbach, the director), together with their four children, try to survive, but not the couple, but a catastrophic disaster: a truck crashes into a train carrying chemical waste and the explosion causes a black and toxic cloud to hang over the city they live in.
Jack, who is a high school teacher who studied Adolf Hitler like few others, has a pronounced obsession -naturally- with death. And the film, which remains quite faithful to the original book, will mark milestones throughout its plot, which at different times and circumstances involves love without measure, jealousy, the survival instinct, family and, if it were just , even Elvis Presley.
Perhaps Babette’s phrase to her husband, one night in bed (“Life is good, Jack, as long as there are children, we are safe”) marks where the film will end up, even if she says it first of the toxic cloud that changes history a lot.
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Far from wanting to anticipate something, we can anticipate something: after the toxic cloud, which has an abrupt cut in the film, we move on to something else, which lurks within the family.
Of course, when DeLillo published his novel, he did not imagine the Covid epidemic, but there are many scenes in which the fear of contagion and confinement – due to the confinement itself – makes us badly remember what we have gone through and continue to go through. .
Adam Driver once again shows how versatile he is and how he can work with his huge frame and look like a scared kid. His character is more nuanced than that of the rest of the cast, in which Greta Gerwig gets the most out of Babette, this housewife and mother who also finds time to attend to her own existential concerns.
Noah Baumbach imposes the rhythm on the story that has already made him recognized. He knows where to aim with humour, he gives his characters long monologues and also many dialogues, as if juxtaposed, in the family.
Ah, this isn’t a Marvel movie, but it has a scene in the credits, or should I say in the credits. It’s worth stopping by to see it, it’s something between a musical number and a “movement” number.
“Background noise”
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Comedy drama. USA, 2022. Original title: “White Noise”137′, SAM 16 Of: Noah Baumbach. With: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Sam Nivola, Raffey Cassidy. Rooms: Atlas Caballito, Lorca, Atlas Patio Bullrich, Multiplex Belgrano, Cinema Devoto.
Source: Clarin
