Chloé Zhao’s stunning Oscar frontrunner unusually centers a single woman over 60 to illuminate an America that rarely garners mainstream attention
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao’s exquisite, empathic Oscar-tipped feature about a sixtysomething woman who takes to itinerant van life after the closure of a mine vanishes her livelihood and Nevada town, doesn’t flinch from the vagaries of the human body.
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