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  1. Rated: 4/5 • Apr 30, 2021. With Nomadland, Chloé Zhao completes a trilogy of sorts that offers an authentic and empathetic portrait of the dispossessed of the American West. Jul 29, 2024 ...

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    • Chloé Zhao
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    • Frances Mcdormand
  2. More Info on IMDb. Subscribe Now. Nomadland in US theaters February 19, 2021 starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie. Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring.

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    • Charlene Swankie
    • Chloé Zhao
  3. Nomadland: Directed by Chloé Zhao. With Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May. A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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    • Drama
    • Chloé Zhao
    • 2021-02-19
  4. Feb 19, 2021 · Nomadland. Fern (Frances McDormand) is grieving a life that’s been ripped away from her. It seems like she was relatively happy in Empire, Nevada, one of those many American small towns built around industry. When the gypsum plant there closed, the town of Empire quite literally closed with it. In six months, its entire zip code was eliminated.

    • A Book About Survival
    • The Real-Life Stars of The Movie
    • The Contemporary Nomadic Lifestyle
    • The Resonance of Nomadland

    In 2014, Bruder wrote a cover story for Harper’s Magazine, “The End of Retirement,” which detailed the plight of older Americans who couldn’t afford to retire and worked temporary jobs for companies like Amazon. She built off that reporting and three years later published Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. The book is centere...

    While Bruder did not write the film adaptation, she helped supply research to Zhao. She tells TIME that she had primary source material that wasn’t used in the book, and she was able to introduce Zhao to some of the nomads she met while she was writing it. She remembers when Zhao asked her about what she thought of Linda May for the movie. “I didn’...

    In a recent interview with The Guardian, Bob Wells discussed the community of modern nomads, and why people are increasingly drawn to the movement. “If the Great Recession was a crack in the system, Covid and climate change will be the chasm,” he said. This lifestyle is not to be confused with “#vanlife”—a hashtag that populates Instagram feeds and...

    While she hopes that the movie’s relevance will be long-lasting, Bruder finds it particularly timely right now, for two reasons. One is the escapist nature of the cinematography, which offers a journey around the U.S. for viewers who have not been able to travel for nearly a year. The other is the emotional journey of Fern’s character, which may be...

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NomadlandNomadland - Wikipedia

    Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder , it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad .

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  7. Feb 19, 2021 · Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape ...

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