White Noise (2022)
Directed by Noah Baumbach
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
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The environmental apocalyptic sequences showed Baumbach has a potential flare for epic action and could compete with the likes of Roland Emmerich with a homage to Cecil B. DeMille’s Angel of Death scene from “The Ten Commandments” (1956).
…once the action leaves Los Angeles, it too often slips into the kind of studied quirkiness that made much of the director’s last feature, White Noise, hard to take…
Much like in Baumbach’s White Noise, a lot of the humor also comes from the use of sound and silence…
Baumbach has managed to follow up his strained Don DeLillo adaptation White Noise (2022) with a wondrous bit of movie magic…
…to utterly bizarre concoctions like “White Noise”…
…his first feature since 2022’s polarising adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise…
After the lacklustre response to 2022’s White Noise, Baumbach returns to familiar territory here, crafting a coming-of-middle-age comic drama influenced by Fellini’s 8½.
The more successful attempts, such as Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Netflix’s adaptation of The Sandman, have been filmed in multiple parts, while failures like 2017’s The Dark Tower condense the story down to its most basic components, checking off the most salient points (“there was a tower, it was dark”) and nothing more.