Nomadland

2020 • 107 minutter

Om denne film

Gipsminen i den landlige by i Nevada, hvor Fern bor, lukker. Så Fern (Frances McDormand) pakker sin autocamper og tager på farten. Fern udforsker livet uden for det konventionelle samfund som en moderne nomade og opdager snart en ukuelighed og opfindsomhed, der giver hende helt nye oplevelser. Undervejs i denne historie om håb møder hun andre nomader, som bliver hendes mentorer og lærer hende om livet i det uendelige og til tider bjergtagende vestamerikanske landskab. I NOMADLAND fra Searchlight Pictures og den prisbelønnede instruktør Chloé Zhao medvirker de virkelige nomader Linda May, Swankie og Bob Wells. Zhao har med stor empati og indsigt skrevet manuskriptet baseret på Jessica Bruders bog "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century". McDormand får Fern til at leve på lærredet gennem en stærk og autentisk præstation. David Strathairn spiller medrivende, som en mand, Fern bliver venner med undervejs. NOMADLAND er en fascinerende fejring af menneskeligheden, uafhængigheden og eventyret.

Bedømmelser og anmeldelser

Depressing, slow moving and no real storyline. I am shocked it won a best picture Oscar and can only think that was due to how few movies were released during the pandemic, reducing the competition to next to nothing.

In producing a film on this topic, the uprootedness and marginalized circumstances of ageing (primarily white) Americans, the film reflects some of the previous literature that has covered similar individual stories. It's all well-acted and believable, but it does leave lots of important questions - like the how's and why's of the main characters - floating in the air. People in these circumstances certainly had time to end up there, so in such a film it would be helpful to learn more about the decisions and directions taken in the past that resulted in current circumstances. It is also a very sterilized depiction of a marginalized population, leaving out much of the messiness. Some very important pieces are missing, but it is still worth a watch.

A spiritual journey of grief and self-discovery. Honest to the bone, compassionate and with a lot of beauty inside of the deep America.