Nomadland Chloe Zhao
Mcdormand gives a layered performance and writer director chloe zhao s screenplay eschews flashy oscar bait speeches in favor of a steady accumulation of quiet observational moments.
Nomadland chloe zhao. For nomadland zhao s discovery started with mcdormand. Desperately moving from start to finish this ode to a lost america presents a quietly complex picture of the decimation of industry across whole swathes of the superpower. Directed by chloé zhao. On paper films about homelessness sound angry or strident but this film is more about the.
When chloe zhao s nomadland won the people s choice award at this year s toronto international film festival it made history as the first movie to ever win both that prize and the. These morrissey lyrics are at the heart of chloe zhao s nomadland a film that follows the itinerant lives of older americans searching the country for a living wage with their campers. It cuts like a person absorbs like a person observes like a person and moves like a person. Nomadland is a 2020 american drama film directed by chloé zhao who also wrote edited and co produced the film is based on the 2017 non fiction book nomadland.
High expectations were heaped on zhao who broke through with her cannes premiered 2017 film the rider and nomadland which combines deep emotional force with innovative form. Chloé zhao directs the great frances mcdormand in a strikingly sensitive drama. Mcdormand and david strathairn lead a cast of real life nomads who despite being nonactors give some of the year. With frances mcdormand gay deforest patricia grier linda may.
Nomadland is a film about people above anything else. It is the tone of nomadland that persuades the viewer to lean in. The film had its world premiere on september 11 2020 at the. Chloe zhao s latest is a profoundly observant study of life and existence at the fringes of a hardcore capitalist ecosystem.
They met a day before the 2018 independent spirit awards where mcdormand was nominated for best actress and zhao received a 50 000.