7/8/2023 0 Comments Nomadland the bookSubtitled “Surviving America in the 21st Century,” the Nomadland book investigates the transient community of mostly older, working class Americans who have traded living in a house for living in vans and campers. While Nomadland is not a true story, it is based on a 2017 non-fiction book of the same name by Jessica Bruder. When one considers Zhao will next be directing the upcoming Marvel’s Eternals, it makes her filmmaking techniques to create this viscerally authentic cinematic experience all the more unique. Many critics and early reviewers, including our review out of TIFF last September, responded to a more authentic representation of America than we tend to get in mainstream cinema. To further capture the feel of the nomadic experience, Zhao used a bare bones crew who traveled in vans and stayed in motels for the four-month production. Though Nomadland is not a true story or a documentary, the film often blurs the line between fiction and reality by centering real places and communities, as well as casting a number of real people who are playing fictionalized versions of themselves. The film stars Frances McDormand as Fern, an older woman and working class widow who travels the American west in a van, in which she also lives. Nomadland, the Oscar-tipped feature film from Chloé Zhao, debuted on Hulu Friday after getting a limited theatrical release in the U.S.
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