5/19/2023 0 Comments Author of nomadlandThe film sets Fern adrift among these real-life transient workers, several of whom were featured in Bruder's book, and who tell their stories again here. The journalist Jessica Bruder wrote about Empire and the larger phenomenon of modern-day American nomads in her 2017 book Nomadland, from which this movie was freely adapted. in a large van that will also be her home. Over the next year or so we'll follow as she takes on work wherever she can find it, driving across the U.S. We see Fern packing her things and leaving Empire behind. But in 2011, in the wake of a devastating global recession, the local gypsum mine shut down and Empire became a ghost town, displacing hundreds of residents in the process.Įmpire was a real place, but the main character in this movie is a fictional creation: She's a widow in her 60s named Fern, and she's played in a remarkable performance by Frances McDormand. Restless and tired of ordinary life, Fern (Frances McDormand) takes to the road in Nomadland.Ĭhloé Zhao's amazing new movie, Nomadland, begins with an elegy for Empire, Nev., one of those old-fashioned company towns that thrived during America's post-World War II manufacturing boom.
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