| Drama |
Director(s): Chloé Zhao
Writer(s): Chloé ZhaoCast: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Swankie
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 19, 2021 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 19, 2021
Running time: 1 hr. 48 mins.
SYNOPSIS:
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
MOVIE REVIEW:
Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is an utterly inspired docu-fictional hybrid. It is a gentle, compassionate, questioning film about the American soul. With artistry and grace, Zhao folds nonprofessionals into an imagined story built around a cheerful, resourceful, middle-aged woman played by Frances McDormand. This quiet, self-effacing performance may be the best of her career so far.
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, which explores the reality of transient older Americans living on the road in RVs and vans, picking up seasonal work where they can find it, much like the migrant laborers of generations past. Filmed over four months on locations in Nebraska, South Dakota, Nevada, Arizona and California, its somber story of the resilient discards of an unforgiving economy has a lived-in authenticity that creeps up on you with stirring power and grace.
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