Mixed bag of some laughs & utter boredom. Cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Don Cheadle, Jodie ...
Mixed bag of some laughs & utter boredom.
Cast: Adam Driver,
Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Don Cheadle, Jodie
Turner-Smith
Rating: 2/5
Streaming on : Netflix
For all big Noah
Baumbach fan, White Noise is rather disappointing. This is surely his weakest
in terms of the screenplay, the direction and especially the pacing.
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.
There were a lot of
instances throughout the film where one switches off and contemplates whether
to continue watching it. This doesn’t feel like a Noah Baumbach film. There is
the typical Baumbach dialogue and characters but it’s more like a Greg Mottola
film. It has its fair share of philosophy and humour, but the humour doesn’t
work most of the time.
Adam Driver, Greta
Gerwig and Don Cheadle give terrific performances, but this doesn’t make the
film worth watching. The cinematography is good but very unlike Baumbach who
mostly works in a more intimate level in this field.
White Noise needs to
be re-watched to appreciate and possibly even like it.
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