Nomadland Is a Life-Affirming Depiction of Community in the Crumbling American Empire Directed by Chloé Zhao
Starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie, Bob Wells
Published Feb 18, 2021
10Frances McDormand has already led a staggering career, but she may have capped it all off with her role as Fern in Chloé Zhao s immersive, emotionally resonant masterpiece
Nomadland. The film, which follows the lives of modern American nomads many of whom play themselves as they live in converted work vans and enjoy life in an off-the-grid desert commune, is an astonishing achievement that might just stay with you forever.
Fern once lived with her husband in a tiny town called Empire, Nevada. When he died of an unknown illness, she stayed behind to keep his memory alive until the town s sole income driver, a sheetrock mine, was shuttered and the town itself disintegrated and had its ZIP code deleted. To the judgmental eyes of her family and friends, Fern
Frances McDormand Nomadland once again paints the Academy Award-winning McDormand in a leading light so unconventional, that these offbeat roles are becoming the norm for the esteemed actress. Also producing the film, McDormand essays the life of a woman who adapts to living like a nomad in the great American West. This standout role comes after she starred and won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for her work in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri . Also the winner of another Academy Award, McDormand has two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, to make her one of the few performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting . McDormand plays the role of Fern, who loses her job after the US Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada shut down in 2011 and resorts to life as a nomad in the American west.
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Marla Grayson is a bad person. Her nine-to-five consists of convincing the legal system to grant her guardianship over well-off, healthy senior citizens and then depositing them into care homes where they are administered unnecessary, dissociative medication and separated from society. Then she sells off their homes and assets. The craziest part? The whole scam is (mostly) conducted within the letter of the law. It’s all going off without a hitch until Marla, played by British Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike, picks on the wrong woman: Jennifer Peterson, the mother of an equally ruthless mafia boss. What follows is a pitch-black comedy and adventure that gets to the dark heart of late-stage capitalism.
In these unusual days for the entertainment business, an Academy Award front-runner is getting an unusual theatrical rollout.
Trailblazing writer-director Chloé Zhao's delicately understated road movie "Nomadland" opens Friday in Oklahoma City in a format not often explored by Oscar-bound independent dramas: the IMAX screen at the AMC Quail Springs Mall 24.
It's part of an uncommon release strategy Searchlight Pictures has adopted during these unprecedented days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zhao's visually striking and emotionally resonate drama is debuting in IMAX around the country over the next few weeks, leading up to its opening in standard movie theaters on Feb. 19, the same day the film starts streaming on Hulu.
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