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Many people will not have been to the cinema for more than a year but, after months of closures, Britain’s cinemas will begin reopening from tomorrow and I, for one, cannot wait.
It goes almost without saying that cinemas offer bigger screens, fabulous sound and the deepest, darkest of blackouts, but what I’ve really missed is the concentration. At the cinema there’s no sudden need to boil a kettle, repel marauding teenagers or pause the latest Netflix offering while you answer the door.
Instead, when the lights go down there’s just you and your chosen film for the next couple of hours. Perhaps to be discussed over a glass of wine afterwards. Bliss!
One marriage, two movie reviews: Nomadland
14 May, 2021 07:00 PM
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Director Chloe Zhao, left, with Frances McDormand on the set of Nomadland. Photo / AP
By: Greg Bruce, Zanna Gillespie and Greg Bruce
Greg and Zanna confront the twin spectres of late-stage capitalism and camping.
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Bleakness of central character s existence: ?
Bleakness of Amazon fulfilment centre: 5
SHE SAW
Greg has to be the only person on the planet who would come away from the film Nomadland thinking the worst part of being a nomad is sitting around a campfire with like-minded people sharing a communal meal. Such is his disdain for the outdoors. The worst part, quite obviously, is pooping in a bucket and the constant fear of being woken in the night by patrols ordering you to move on.
ONE-TRICK towns whose industries have collapsed run like a sore through the USA.
Those once-prosperous nooks and crannies scattered across the American plains, which built and then bought the products of the post-war consumer boom, are a well-viewed barometer of decline.
In Chloe Zhao’s extraordinary, triple-Oscar-winning film, the landscape of a crumbling Any Town USA immediately asks a question of the lead (Frances McDormand).
Without human attachment to anchor someone, what is to keep you from being on the move, finding peace in a vast land?
She believes without that attachment, coupled with the loss of community bonds based on work, a town feels empty.
Whereâs it on? Digital platforms, DVD and Blu-ray
Hereâs another story of the modern west, this time more like a genre movie. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner play grandparents in 1960s Montana â the Blackledges. Their son dies, leaving a wife and young son. But when the widow remarries into the unruly Weboy family, and they witness her being physically abused by her new husband, the grieving Blackledges become fearful for their grandsonâs safety and travel to the Weboy homestead in North Dakota to confront the family. In a deliciously offbeat piece of casting, regent of the Weboy roost is our own Lesley Manville, who gives a film-stealingly colourful turn as malevolent matriarch Blanche Weboy. Tripling down on her Mrs Danvers routine in Phantom Thread (2017), Manville lords it terrifyingly over her brutish brood of wrong-âun kids. Sheâs queen bee of the rednecks, and sheâll stop at nothing to protect her own. This handsome and pleasingly o
Frances McDormand is spectacular in the Oscar-winning Nomadland: Stream it now on Disney+
Nomadland is out from today, April 30, on Star on Disney+. By Disney Tuesday 27 Apr 2021, 12:43 PM Apr 27th 2021, 12:43 PM 10,291 Views 5 Comments
READY TO STREAM this year’s biggest award winner from the comfort of your own living room?
Nomadland premieres on Disney+ today – and in cinemas where available – less than a week after it won Best Picture, Best Director for Chloe Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand at the 2021 Academy Awards.
The Oscar accolades closed off an incredible awards season for Nomadland. The film won Best Director and Best Motion Picture (Drama) at the Golden Globes in March 2021, along with wins at the Critics’ Choice Awards, the BAFTAs and more.