Contradictions and lacerations, oftentimes tragicomical, of modernity emerge since the very first day on the Venice Film Festival’s screens. But not before welcoming on the red carpet the queen of the Nouvelle Vague, the one and only Catherine Deneuve who will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. New Yorker Noah Baumbach meets novelist Don DeLillo for the first movie in the main competition, White Noise, a parable of survival between the absurd and...