Nomadland Film

The only other familiar face belongs to david strathairn perfect as a man who fern befriends there s an improvised natural quality to fern s conversations and interactions that grounds the film.

Nomadland film. Surviving america in the twenty first century by jessica bruder and stars frances mcdormand as a woman who leaves her small town to travel around the american midwest. It cuts like a person absorbs like a person observes like a person and moves like a person. Follows a woman in her sixties who after losing everything in the great recession embarks on a journey through the american west living as a van dwelling modern day nomad. It uses those rare pauses and moments of relief in life to their fullest potential.

In fact almost everyone here save from fern and dave played by david strathairn is a real life nomad zhao continues her penchant for semi doc authenticity starting with 2017 s the rider by placing fern in amongst this real community and allowing those people the chance to be themselves it imbues nomadland with a phenomenal sense of heart and pathos. The film had its world premiere on september 11 2020 at the. Most of the people that fern meets along the way in nomadland are non actors people who live this life on the road. To experience zhao s latest is to experience the feeling of sitting still while uncontrollably moving forward.

Directed by chloé zhao. It is the tone of nomadland that persuades the viewer to lean in. On paper films about homelessness sound angry or strident but this film is more about the sadness and loneliness that accompanies alienation than it is a civics lecture about the economics of poverty. Nomadland wins at energacamerimage film festival 47 mins ago dp phedon papamichael on working with aaron sorkin on the trial of the chicago 7 23 hours ago.