The Atlantic
With the intimate, Oscar-tipped
Eternals set for the fall, this might be the filmmaker’s big year.
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Chloé Zhao is having a very busy 2021. She’s buried in postproduction on a Marvel movie,
Eternals, due out this November. Her third feature film,
Nomadland, will be released wide tomorrow, screening both on Hulu and in open theaters around the country. It’s a big, bold rollout for an ostensibly intimate drama. But Zhao’s films have always had a grand scale to them, even though they’re made on tiny budgets. Her first two films,