In Chloé Zhao’s new film,
Nomadland, an older woman named Fern (Frances McDormand), moves into a van after her husband dies and the gypsum plant where she worked for years shuts down. She traverses the country in her mobile home, taking seasonal jobs where she can find them. As her journey shows, the nomadic lifestyle which many turned to after the financial crisis of 2008 and amid neoliberalism’s ongoing unsustainability can be both fraught with hardship and so unfettered as to be sublime.
Zhao, per her typical filmmaking style, opted to have all of the characters in the film, aside from McDormand and actor David Strathairn, be actual people playing themselves. The most famous of them is Bob Wells, an elderly nomad and environmentalist of over 25 years who runs a popular YouTube channel called CheapRVliving and a non-profit called Homes on Wheels Alliance to help people transition to the lifestyle. Wells resembles Jerry Garcia, or Santa during his offseason, and inspires abo
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Angela Bassett, earing and fashion detail, attends the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images)
This year, with shrinking audiences and pandemic restrictions, there was a bitter irony in the fact women won more Oscars, across new and highly visible categories, than ever before.
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