ArtGodalming
Nomadland
Tue 19 Oct
|Borough Hall, Godalming
Fern loses her job, packs a van and embarks on a journey through the vast landscape of the American West exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. From the director of "The Rider" and starring Frances McDormand.
Time & Location
19 Oct 2021, 19:15
Borough Hall, Godalming, The Burys, Godalming GU7 1HY, UK
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Film Notes
Nomadland review – Frances McDormand delivers the performance of her career.
Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is an utterly inspired docu-fictional hybrid, like her previous feature The Rider. It is a gentle, compassionate, questioning film about the American soul. With artistry and grace, Zhao folds nonprofessionals into an imagined story built around a cheerful, resourceful, middle-aged woman played by Frances McDormand. This quiet, self-effacing performance may be the best of her career so far.
Nomadland is about a new phenomenon: America’s 60- and 70-something generation whose economic future was shattered by the 2008 crash. They are grey-haired middle-class strivers reduced to poverty who can’t afford to retire but can’t afford to work while maintaining a home. So they have become nomads, a new American tribe roaming the country in camper vans in which they sleep, looking for seasonal work in bars, restaurants and – in this film – in a gigantic Amazon warehouse…