‘Background Noise’, by director Noah Baumbach, lets the curtain fall for the match at the Lido
The Venice Film Festival kicked off this Wednesday with the presentation of director Noah Baumbach’s film ‘Background Noise’, starring Greta Gerwin and Adam Driver. Contagious disease, misinformation and consumerism are the narrative lines of a film based on the novel by the brilliant American writer Don DeLillo.
“DeLillo’s novel is a satire, both against academia and against pop culture,” the director said at the press conference after the presentation of his film. Driver becomes a Hitler study professor in a small university town who experiences a “toxic event in the sky.”
Baumbach broke the origins of his premiere which he said had been rediscovered during the covid-19 pandemic. “I couldn’t believe how relevant the novel seemed to me and how it made me understand the moment we were living. Not only did I start to embrace DeLillo’s language, but I also found my own voice in his language,” said Baumbach, who reunites with Driver after their success with “Marriage Story” together. Driver plays Jack Gladney, a glitzy Hitler studies professor and father. of four kids whose comfortable suburban college life with his flamboyant wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) is turned upside down after a horrific accident involving a toxic substance in the air. “The film is about life and death and how we must essentially recognize that they are the same and exist together rather than being two different things,” concluded the filmmaker.
‘Background noise’ is the first of four Netflix-produced films to compete for the Golden Lion at the festival’s 79th edition. Films from this platform will be shown continuously during the first three days of the event in Venice.
‘Ruido de fondo’ is followed by ‘Bardo’, the latest from Mexican director Alejandro González Iñarritu, who also premiered his previous films ‘Birdman’ and ‘The Revenant’ in Venice en route to Oscar glory. On the third day of the festival, Netflix ‘Athena’ by French director Romain Gravas will premiere, leaving the long-awaited ‘Blonde’ behind for the second week. This is a dark account of Marilyn Monroe’s tragic life, with Cuban-Spanish star Ana de Armas in the title role.
Netflix has become the new patron of custom masterminds, as traditional Hollywood studios bet on superhero-packed blockbusters and franchises.
The oldest film festival in the world, first held 90 years ago, takes place on Lido Island and the Hollywood Academy first moved here to launch its awards campaign. The Academy’s new CEO Bill Kramer will participate in the Venice Film Festival in a series of events, marking the first time the body has officially attended the festival.
The solid track record that the Italian League has brought to directors in recent years begs the claim for the best talent in the industry, as it’s not for nothing that eight of the last ten Oscars for Best Director have been for films that have premiered. went in Venice, including the latest winner, Jane Campion, for ‘The Power of the Dog’ produced by Netflix.
The complicated relationship between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival favors Venice, which reaffirms its commitment to four titles after the presentation of three films from this studio at the Lido in 2021. These four films make for an impressive line-up for the festival, but Netflix adds the presentation of the miniseries ‘Copenhagen Cowboy’, director Nicolas Winding Refn’s first step in this format. A six-episode drama, in which the main character navigates the criminal underworld of Copenhagen. The premiere marks the Danish director’s return to Venice since the presentation of ‘Valhalla Rising’ in 2009.
This Wednesday also saw the Lars von Trier signed series ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ in Venice, the director has just announced that he has Parkinson’s disease. This is the latest installment in Von Trier’s cult series and completes the trilogy that originally started in the 1990s. ‘The Kingdom’ is set in a hospital built on the old ponds of Copenhagen, where evil has taken root.
After winning the Volpi Cup last year for her role in ‘Madres Paralelas’, Spanish actress Penelope Cruz returns to the festival with the film ‘En los Márgenes’, which marks the directorial debut of Juan Diego Botto. The film is the only Spanish show in this Venice in 2022 and starring Penélope Cruz and Luis Tosar. ‘En los Márgenes’ will compete in the Orizzonti (Horizons) Section.
Source: La Verdad
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