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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 • THE BULLETIN
MOVIES & SHOWTIMES
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Frances McDor-
mand stars in
a scene from
“Nomadland.”
Searchlight Pictures
‘Nomadland’
journeys through
joy and sorrow
BY MAKENZIE WHITTLE • The Bulletin
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ased on the nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the
Twenty-First Century,” by Jessica Bruder, director and writer Chloe
Zhao takes audiences on a quiet, almost poetic character-led journey
with star Frances McDormand as our guide through this nomadic lifestyle.
The fictionalized story we go on is an-
chored around Fern, a 60-something-year-
old woman who hits the road in an old
camper van after her husband has died, she
loses her job when the United States Gyp-
sum Company shutters and the company
town where she lives along with it.
Set in 2011, Fern can’t survive on retire-
ment money so she begins wandering from
town to town doing odd jobs including
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“Nomadland”
107 minutes
Rated R for some full nudity.
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