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3/4
“We be the bitches of the badlands.”
Matthew Brady - wrote on 01/25/2021
‘Nomadland’ is one of those movies where nothing much happens, but it’s the type of movie you sit back and vibe with it.
This is a very attentive movie, where you journey along with this woman (played by Frances McDormand) who is fed up with her old life and decides to go off grid by traveling to different places while living in her van. She’s not homeless, just houseless. She is like a leaf that quietly and casually drifts from location to location. She encounters different people in this community, who are played by real nomads. Throughout the whole movie you are never in one place for too long, you just keep moving on.
I’ll give director Chloé Zhao and cinematographer Joshua James Richards major credit for they approach to a story like this. Zhao decision to include …
