Film
Nomadland
- Director
- Chloé Zhao
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 108 mins
The description “a gentle, compassionate, questioning film about the American soul” (The Guardian) probably tells you all you need to know about whether Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is your kind of thing.
The Chinese-American director’s follow-up to her disabled rodeo rider drama The Rider casts the great Frances McDormand as Fern – one of America’s tribe of baby boomer nomads, whose financial security was destroyed by the crash and now travel the land in camper vans picking up temporary work where they can find it. The film is inspired by Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, and by the radical anti-capitalist Bob Wells, who pops up in a cameo. Nomadland was the big winner at the 93rd Academy Awards, where it won Best Picture and Chloé Zhao became the first woman of colour to bag Best Director. Frances McDormand also won the Best Actress gong.
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