Her participation occurred in a private agreement with Mr. One night, Jack confronts Babette directly about it, and she confesses what happened: some months earlier, she felt she “had a condition” and joined an experimental trial for that new drug. He tries to discover more about this drug, but it seems to be a very experimental drug nobody knows anything about. With this knowledge, Jack faces a new issue in his family: his wife Babette is having severe cases of memory loss, and the daughter Denise believes it depends on a drug she takes secretly, named Dylar. But Jack discovers that the toxic substance contaminated him, and he will die because of it, even though he doesn’t know exactly when (it will take years anyway). It will last some days, after which life will return to normality. The sequence of events in White Noise has two major phases: the first milestone is the “Airborne Toxic Event” that occurs in the first half, where a massive emergency forces the population in that area to extreme conditions: they will have to leave their home, escape their town and find shelter in different places, because of a toxic cloud on their heads.
However, from time to time, Jack and Babette touch on some important meanings of life: how grateful they are for what they have and how they fear death. Their life goes on happily: we can see Jack and Babette often immersed in chaotic conversations about single aspects of the world, where everybody provides their personal opinions and where people don’t seem to arrive at any greater conclusion. He’s married to Babette, and they have four children in total. White Noise follows the life of professor Jack Gladney over a period of one year. You can watch the official trailer for White Noise here on Youtube. In this article, we will provide all answers. The meaning of the movie, the reason why “white noise” was chosen as a title, the plot, and the ending need to be explained to have a complete understanding. Starring Adam Driver and based on the book of the same name written by Don DeLillo in 1985, the film represents an interesting perspective on society and humankind. Part of its administrative work, the restoration and digitization of Wim Wenders' cinematic work, is carried out from Berlin.White Noise is a movie directed by Noah Baumbach and released on Netflix in 2022. It shares its office space with the Wenders Images (the photo studio by Wim and Donata Wenders) and the Wim Wenders Stiftung, a foundation which is based in Düsseldorf.
Road Movies is located in Berlin Mitte, inside the building complex of the old "Königstadt Brewery". Wim Wenders' installation Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper at the Beyeler Foundation (Riehen/Basel) in 2020 demonstrated the effectiveness of this technology as a tool for storytelling within a museum setting. Furthermore, the company has become a leader in 3D technologies with the production of three feature-length films in this format. Only after the conclusion of the insolvency proceedings were these rights acquired via a Hamburg production company that belonged to a friend of Wenders' and finally returned to Wenders.ĭocumentary films have always played an important role for Road Movies, including award-winning productions like Buena Vista Social Club (film), Pina (film), and most recently A Black Jesus by Luca Lucchesi. The expansion of activities led to Road Movies becoming the Road Movies Group, in which individual companies took care of rights exploitation, production and distribution of films.ĭuring the Internet boom around the turn of the millennium, Wenders decided, together with his partner Ulrich Felsberg, to sell Road Movies to Das Werk AG, in return for which he received a twenty percent share in Das Werk.Īfter the insolvency of Das Werk in 2003, Wenders' entire rights library was stuck in the insolvency estate of Das Werk. Under the leadership of Wenders' parter Ulrich Felsberg, many projects that are still well known today, such as Bread and Roses (2000 film) or Bend It Like Beckham, were co-financed. Since the early 1990s, Road Movies has also co-produced many European productions. Well-known films of this time include Wings of Desire or Until the End of the World. Up until the 1990s, Road Movies acted as a producer of Wenders' own films. Road Movies Filmproduktion is a German film production company formed by Wim Wenders in 1977. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( February 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Road Movies Filmproduktion" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.