The Venice International Film Festival has named Noah Baumbach’s Netflix film White Noise as its opening movie for its 2022 edition. It will be Baumbach’s return to the film festival after his 2019 released Marriage Story premiered in Venice three years ago, the film ended up becoming six Oscar nominations and one win. 

White Noise stars Adam Driver who was also the lead in Marriage Story, as a professor in the mid-West going through a very dramatic year. The movie is based on the 1985 acclaimed novel by Don DeLillo, marking the first time Baumbach has not worked from his original idea. The film also stars — Greta Gerwig, Andre Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle.

Baumbach adapted DeLillo’s novel for the screen and produced White Noise together with David Heyman and Uri Singer.

“It is a great honour to open the 79. Venice Film Festival with White Noise,” said Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera. “Adapted from the great Don DeLillo novel, Baumbach has made an original, ambitious and compelling piece of art which plays with a measure on multiple registers: dramatic, ironic, satirical. The result is a film that examines our obsessions, doubts, and fears as captured in the 1980s, yet with very clear references to contemporary reality.”

Baumbach called it an “incredible honour” to open this year’s Venice festival. “This is a place that loves cinema so much, and it’s a thrill and a privilege to join the amazing films and filmmakers that have premiered here.”

Venice will announce its full competition line-up on Tuesday, July 26. Several other Netflix films are in contention for a Lido spot this year, including Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Mexican epic Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths and Blonde, a fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe, from New Zealand director Andrew Dominik, featuring Knives Out and No Time to Die star Ana de Armas as Monroe. The 79th edition of the Italian fest is set to run Aug. 31-Sept. 10.

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