2020 Film, Cert 12A, 106 Mins
Tickets €6/€5
In Chloé Zhao’s multiple award-winning feature, Frances McDormand plays Fern, a displaced woman in her 60’s, who, having lost her husband and her home, sets off on the road to explore life as a modern-day nomad.A mixture of fiction and documentary film making, Nomadland features a cast of real life nomads: people living on the road, traveling for seasonal work, unencumbered by many of life’s obligations. There is freedom and comradery in their community, mirroring the same openness as their vast American landscapes,and Fern finds joy and acceptance there. Zhao gently balances the precarious reality of a life without safety nets, against Fern’s power to continue to make her own choices in a world that assumes she has none.