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Nomadland sets Frances McDormand to shine against landscape of American West in grey nomad tale WedWednesday 23 updated ThuThursday 24 DecDecember 2020 at 12:29am Nomadland is adapted from Jessica Bruder s non-fiction book of the same name, based on interviews with older Americans forced into itinerant lives by economic necessity. ( Share Print text only Cancel In a performance that has her tipped as an Oscars favourite, Frances McDormand leads Chloe Zhao s Venice Gold Lion-winning Nomadland a song of exile in which a 60-something widow takes to the open road, searching for home or something like it. Set in a present day where the gig economy is simply an established fact and the American Dream has long gone to seed, Nomadland opens with the brief history of Empire, Nevada. ....