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The Best Picture winner is an elegantly made drama beautifully helmed by Chloé Zhao and with a formidable performance by Frances McDormand.
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A tattoo on a nomad’s arm ponders the thought of whether home is something you take with you, rather then a geo-physical place. It is the concept at the heart of Chloé Zhao’s
Nomadland, which illuminates the lives and culture of North America’s nomadic community. Based on a non-fiction book by Jessica Bruder, the film’s backdrop is the Great Recession in the early 2010s which causes Fern (Frances McDormad) to lose her job and forces her into living on the road in her van,