The movie
Nomadland
Frances McDormand as a member of a hidden underclass in America: those who have lost their jobs and their homes to economic precarit.
Length: 108 min
Country: Verenigde Staten
Language spoken: English
Language subtitles: English
Cast: Frances McDormand, Bob Wells, Linda May, David Strathairn, Swankie
Director: Chloé Zhao
Release date: 2021
Description
International Cinema originates from a collaboration between arthouse theatre Cinecitta and International Center Tilburg to provide the international community of Tilburg with English language film without subtitles. Film titles are carefully chosen and this time we especially show the great Oscar winner Nomadland. Will you join us?
Winner of the Golden Lion for best film at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and the People’s Choice Award for most popular film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Chloé Zhao’s quietly profound drama stars the outstanding Frances McDormand as a member of a hidden underclass in America: those who have lost their jobs and their homes to economic precarity, and who have taken to a nomadic lifestyle, living out of their vans and RVs while searching for seasonal employment across the American West. Zhao does an amazing job of inserting McDormand’s widow Fern into the lives of real-life nomads, many playing themselves, to outstanding effect.
‘Zhao… [guides] Frances McDormand to a remarkable performance of melancholy gravitas, so rigorously unmannered she's indistinguishable from the real-life nomads with whom she shares the screen… Zhao blurs the line between narrative and vérité documentary. She frames her subjects against majestic landscapes and gorgeous watercolor sunsets but never aestheticizes nature for postcard effect… If you ease into the pensive rhythms of Zhao's film, there's beauty, peace and even comfort to be found.’—David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Winner of the Golden Lion for best film at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and the People’s Choice Award for most popular film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Chloé Zhao’s quietly profound drama stars the outstanding Frances McDormand as a member of a hidden underclass in America: those who have lost their jobs and their homes to economic precarity, and who have taken to a nomadic lifestyle, living out of their vans and RVs while searching for seasonal employment across the American West. Zhao does an amazing job of inserting McDormand’s widow Fern into the lives of real-life nomads, many playing themselves, to outstanding effect.
‘Zhao… [guides] Frances McDormand to a remarkable performance of melancholy gravitas, so rigorously unmannered she's indistinguishable from the real-life nomads with whom she shares the screen… Zhao blurs the line between narrative and vérité documentary. She frames her subjects against majestic landscapes and gorgeous watercolor sunsets but never aestheticizes nature for postcard effect… If you ease into the pensive rhythms of Zhao's film, there's beauty, peace and even comfort to be found.’—David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
