{"id":139617,"date":"2022-11-26T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-movie-review-of-noah-baumbachs-white-noise\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T05:22:15","slug":"a-movie-review-of-noah-baumbachs-white-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-movie-review-of-noah-baumbachs-white-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"A movie review of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: Sam Nivola, Adam Driver, May Nivola, Greta Gerwig, Dean Moore\/Henry Moore, and Raffey Cassidy in white noise<\/em><\/figcaption>
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Writer-director Noah Baumbach excels at domestic dramas set in a milieu of neurotic artistic intellectuals, working with actors to draw pitch-perfect performances that carry both dramatic and comedic undertones. His two most recent films were about families in disarray. Of <\/em>The Meyerowitz Stories<\/em><\/span>an artistic family realizes the ways they have psychologically abused each other. <\/em>Marriage Story<\/em><\/span> was more literal than that; it’s about how a divorce gets real ugly real quick despite starting in a place of love. He previously mined the disintegration of a nuclear family by divorce in The Squid And The Whale<\/em><\/span>his first major critical and awards success.<\/p>\n

Baumbach takes a major swerve with his latest, white noise<\/em><\/span>. First, it’s not an original screenplay but rather it’s based on Don DeLillo’s seminal 1985 novel, which was considered unfilmable for many years despite its popularity and acclaim. The film is also different in many other ways. Its ambitions are grander and its themes cover a wider perspective, grappling with a few big social issues in America. Baumbach as director also goes bigger. With apparently his biggest budget to date, he stages a few complex set pieces and directs on a larger canvas than he has before.<\/p>\n