“Oh shit!” Jim Jarmusch said, clearly stunned, as he received The Venice Film Festival’s top honour, The Golden Lion, for Father Mother Sister Brother, a triptych that features Cate Blanchett,
Competition films, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia premiere on the Lido.
In its 82nd year, Venice is sitting pretty in the pantheon of film festivals, not only because of its prime location in one of the world’s most beautiful cities, but
9
...takes drollness to curious and often very entertaining new levels...
… a fun little flick that manages to be quirky and engaging, for the most part.
In a supreme application of irony White Noise ends up being all sound and fury, signifying nothing.