![]() ![]() McDormand brought in Zhao, a brilliant choice, who builds on the strengths she displayed in The Rider (2017): a rare talent for evoking vivid, credible performances from non-actors, and for immersing viewers in the myriad stunning landscapes of the American West.įern, an invented character, is a widow whose mining town in Nevada collapsed financially and who now subsists on seasonal jobs. Bruder chronicled people who, by choice or more often economic necessity, began living a nomadic, hand-to-mouth life after the 2008 financial collapse. ![]() McDormand initiated the project and produced the film, a fictionalised version of Jessica Bruder’s non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century. Mulan reboot is ‘humourless and sombre’ ![]() They deliver an illuminating, tough-minded portrait of older Americans displaced by society. McDormand, magnificently natural as Fern, and Chloé Zhao, the writer and director, are an ideal team. That reassurance is true but also brave and defiant, reflecting the complex reality beneath the deceptively simple Nomadland, which won the Golden Lion at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. “Don’t worry about me, I’m OK,” she says. “I’m not homeless, I’m just houseless,” Frances McDormand says as Fern, who lives in her van and has just encountered a concerned former student. ![]()
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