Film Review – White Noise

It’s been repeatedly said that author Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, “White Noise,” is “unfilmable.” There have been a few attempts to bring it to the screen over time, but nothing has managed to make it in front of cameras until now. Writer/director Noah Baumbach attempts to solve a literary adaptation puzzle with the endeavor, which follows a collection of characters as they face death, worry about death, and think about death. It’s an adventure of diverse tones and rhythms, and Baumbach seems to be the person for the job, coming off his career-best work in “Marriage Story,” where he managed to make the excruciating details of divorce into the best film of 2019. The helmer gets somewhere with “White Noise,” locating paths of anxiety and confusion to follow for the first half of the picture. It’s the rest of the feature that loses concentration, with Baumbach unable to translate some stranger ideas, losing consistency along the way. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com