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Why Fern From Nomadland Looks So Familiar
Why Fern From Nomadland Looks So Familiar Searchlight Pictures
Journalist Jessica Bruder wrote
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century in order to draw attention to the growing number of older Americans who began traipsing across the nation after the economic crash of the late 2000s. Their purpose: find seasonal jobs, stay a while, and then move on, seeing as much as they possibly can while making ends meet. Bruder s nonfiction work has since been adapted into the much more simply titled
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Directed by Chloé Zhao, the film focuses on one of these older Americans: Fern, a woman out of a job when the manufacturing plant she s worked in for so long shuts down. To make matters worse, her husband passes away, leaving her with next to nothing. Her decision to become a nomad, then, is an easy one a way for her to move on both physically and emotionally. If Fern actress Frances McDormand seems familiar to you
As McDormand eyes a third Oscar, âOlive Kitteridgeâ deserves another look
By Matthew Gilbert Globe Staff,Updated February 23, 2021, 4:21 p.m.
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Frances McDormand in the 2014 HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge. Jojo Whilden
A lot of people are talking about Frances McDormand, now that her latest movie, âNomadland,â is available to stream (itâs on Hulu). Her performance is sublime in the wistful film, as a guarded, restless woman on the road, and it may just bring her another Oscar, her third.
So: TV chiming in here with a reminder of one of her best performances, in the 2014 HBO miniseries âOlive Kitteridge,â available on HBO and HBO Max. The four-parter is one of the best TV adaptations Iâve seen, conveying the ordinary lives in Elizabeth Stroutâs novel-in-stories with raw honesty and grace. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko and written by Jane Anderson, it doesnât hit a single wrong note. It made me think a little bit of