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- 2020
- R
- 1 h 47 m
- 2020
- R
- 1 h 47 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Chloé Zhao
Written By: Jessica Bruder, Chloé Zhao
- 2020
- R
- 1 h 47 m
- 2020
- R
- 1 h 47 m
Nomadland
7.3
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Chloé Zhao
Written By: Jessica Bruder, Chloé Zhao
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 55 Critic Reviews
89
98% Positive
54 Reviews
54 Reviews
2% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 55 Critic Reviews
89
98% Positive
54 Reviews
54 Reviews
2% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Nomadland, with its beautiful simplicity, and wonderful performances, manages to be an elegant, profoundly moving film which shows the real value of living, rather than just surviving.
Fern’s need for constant movement, McDormand implies in a performance of extraordinary depth and ambiguity, is both a search for something and an escape from something else, and not even she seems completely sure what either something is.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 349 User Ratings
7.3
74% Positive
257 Ratings
257 Ratings
17% Mixed
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
9% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 349 User Ratings
7.3
74% Positive
257 Ratings
257 Ratings
17% Mixed
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
9% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
Truly one of the best films I've seen. Excellent! Fantastic acting by the lead. Go see it at the cinema!
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absolutely incredible, sentimental and inspiring; I really hope for more films like this, Brazil thanks you.
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The journey Zhao has crafted is marvelous, exploring literal peaks and valleys as well as emotional ones.
The role of Fern gives McDormand license to indulge an opaqueness that is often more gnomic than expressive. Perhaps she and Zhao felt that being more demonstrative would shatter the film’s wayward poetic mood.
The film, directed by Chloé Zhao, is an awards-season favorite, and it doesn’t let you forget that for a second. Beneath the veneer of prestige, however, is a prescient and affecting story of a lost American class: van dwellers.
The two elements work against each other, each revealing the fault lines of the other: the fictional side remains bound to (and limited by) the most conventional and unquestioned observational mode of documentary filmmaking, while the documentary aspect strains against the simplifying framework of the drama in which it’s confined.
A powerful character study from start to finish, Zhao plays with themes and backgrounds so masterfully that are mesmerizing.
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slow burn character study which I was amazed to learn has won about a million awards. Understated performance by Frances McDormand, though I found her character to be so self absorbed and unlikeable that I struggled to care what happened to her. To be honest the "plot" is so thin you could go for a two hour walk in the middle of the movie and not miss anything. Would have been better as a documentary.
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Despite McDormand grear performance and Chloé's insight on elders life, there are some things I think I have somehow already seen before (not exactly the same, but at some extent) in films as The Straight Story or Into the Wild.
That is the only reason I don't find the film deserves so many 10 out 10 socre across the globe.
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I'm really surprised by this film's score here. I haven't felt as much let down by critics since Disney's Star Wars reboot.
The film is a jarring mixture between documentary and fiction. It's set in a part of the United States where poverty forces people into nomadism. This seems sad on the surface because it makes you work in unglamorous jobs and live in your car (that's probably the documentary part of the film?). But it's really the best thing ever (which is probably the fiction?). You constantly meet really great and warm people and form deep relations of mutual gratitude. Being a nomad you end up having to leave, but since they are also nomads you bump into them everywhere. Some of them are not so good at sounding profound, but it doesn't get worse than that, and they only try this maybe two or three times in the film. The hardest part in keeping up this lifestyle seems to be turning down the rich people who constantly offer to house you for free. Maybe this is a particularly privileged part of the US. That would explain why there are no black people to be seen anywhere.
This could still be a good fiction if it actually managed to bring the human stuff to life, but this did not work at all for me. In the least convincing scene of the film Fern suddenly becomes judgemental out of nowhere. The writers follow this up with a scene where Fern's sister praises here ability to "cut through **** Having served its purpose as an attempt of giving weight to the relation between the sisters, this aspect of Fern's personality promptly vanishes from the story. Also: is this an ad for Amazon?
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Production Company
Cor Cordium,
Hear/Say Productions,
Highwayman Films
Release Date Dec 4, 2020
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 6 Wins & 9 Nominations
