Nomad land

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Movie
German title Nomad land
Original title Nomad land
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Chloé Zhao
script Chloé Zhao
production Mollye Asher ,
Dan Janvey ,
Frances McDormand ,
Peter Spears ,
Chloé Zhao
music Ludovico Einaudi
camera Joshua James Richards
cut Chloé Zhao
occupation
synchronization

NomadsLand is a film drama by Chloé Zhao from the year 2020 . The director adapted the script based on the non-fiction book published in 2017 by the American author Jessica Bruder Nomaden der Arbeit: Survival in the USA in the 21st Century . The focus of the semi-fictional road movie is a 60-year-old grieving widow from Nevada (portrayed by Frances McDormand ), who leaves her hometown after the death of her husband and the closure of the nearby mine. With a rickety minibus she embarks on a nomadic journey Drive through the southwestern United States and find independence.

The US production premiered on September 11, 2020 in simultaneous screenings at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival . In Venice, Nomadland won the main prize of the festival with the Golden Lion , and in Toronto the People's Choice Award, also the highest honor. At the Academy Awards 2021 , the film received nominations in six categories, such as best film , best director and best adapted screenplay and Frances McDormand as best leading actress - of which it won in the three categories of best film , best director and best Leading actress . In addition, the film won over 200 other international film and festival awards. The film was released in US cinemas on February 19, 2021.

plot

Fern makes the acquaintance of Bob Wells

After the economic collapse of the mining town of Empire near the Black Rock Desert in Nevada , in which she lost everything herself, the 60-year-old Fern packs her belongings in her white van and sets off without a certain direction or a certain direction With a goal in mind, on the way to explore a life outside of conventional society as a modern nomad in the western United States.

She foregoes material comfort during her trip, accepts any work that she is offered on the way, from cleaning toilets in Badlands National Park to working in a restaurant kitchen in South Dakota to packing goods in an Amazon - Fulfillment - Center in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and cordon off friends and family members. But Fern is anything but alone on her journey between all the other people who also live in their mobile homes . Again and again she makes the acquaintance of people who are on the road for reasons similar to those of her and who have lost their homes, their work or a loved one.

At a campsite in the middle of the desert, where the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous , an annual nomad meeting, takes place, she meets Bob Wells, the organizer of the whole thing. He holds seminars on financial, technical, legal and social strategies for the group.

production

Bar and literary original

“The landscapes are part of the healing process that the main character Fern goes through, she finds her place in life through nature. In a van you are exposed to your environment quite intensely! This is why nature is so closely linked to nomadic identity. We city dwellers have lost access to nature through the concrete deserts. I am convinced that nature has a healing power, but I had to learn that first. "

- Chloé Zhao

Directed by Chloé Zhao , who also wrote the screenplay and worked for Nomadland for the first time with Searchlight Pictures . For the film, Zhao adapted the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by journalist Jessica Bruder (in the German translation Nomaden der Arbeit ), to which Frances McDormand and Peter Spears had secured the rights. The two met Zhao after watching her movie The Rider and emailing her McDormand during the Independent Spirit Awards in March 2018. McDormand told Zhao about a character named Fern she wanted to play, and they decided this was the one Will be the main character of the film. Zhao was on the road for years doing research and met Swankie, Bob Wells and Linda May on her trip.

In her review of the book in the New York Times , Arlie Russell Hochschild highlights the regular nomad meetings that Brother also attended, such as the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous near Quartzsite in Arizona , which the author calls a wintry "pop-up metropolis" and where tens of thousands came together. Many of the nomads that Bruder mentions in her book had lost their houses, jobs, or both as a result of the global financial crisis in 2008 , and you can read on reading that exactly 1,050,500 properties were reclaimed in 2010. Brother also recalled that social security benefits were modest, especially for women, and that many people in the US could not afford a home even though they worked full-time. If Republicans are too keen to talk about "freedom" while also demanding / supporting a tax reform that would most likely widen the gap between rich and poor, remember that Brother's "American Dream" will be reduced to self-sufficiency and street freedom , says Hochschild, and the "Lindas" in the USA are largely invisible. After reading the book, Hochschild was reminded of the vagabond songwriter and musician Woody Guthrie , who fled the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma , one of the hardest hit areas by a major drought, to This Land Is Your Land in the 1930s sang about the social misery of the Okies : "From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters / This land was made for you and me."

After Zhao and her cameraman and life partner Joshua James Richards had both read the book, they went on a road trip in their Akira motorhome, much like brother, to get to know this community better. They also visited Swankie and Linda May to get them to work on their film. At a meeting with May in Douglas, Arizona, the director asked her to invite her friends who lived in other motorhomes to hear their stories.

Even if the director had only really lived in three countries, she believes that there is also a nomad in her: “I had the opportunity to study in England and the USA. But as a storyteller, these experiences left a deep mark on me. In my films, I am always looking for what awaits me on the horizon. Even as a child in Beijing, I dreamed of the vast Mongolian steppe in the west. When I moved to New York, it was South Dakota . ”Once there, she realized that there is no such thing as the“ one ”America:“ The country is as different as its landscapes. I love living here, love the people who live here. ”Zhao used the real economic decline of the mining town of Empire near the Black Rock Desert in Nevada as a starting point for its history and as Fern's original home. A gypsum mine had to be closed there in 2011, which meant that most of the population left the city.

Cast, biography and filming

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As already clear on the movie poster, Fern visits the US states of Nevada, California, South Dakota, Nebraska and Arizona in the film

Frances McDormand , who won an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Actress for her portrayal of Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , plays Fern. Quite a few of the people that Bruder describes in her book also appear in Zhao's film and play variations of themselves. In addition to David Strathairn , Linda May and Charlene Swankie , Bob Wells can also be seen in another role. The latter has lived in a van himself for the past few years, having hit rock bottom after a divorce. The real “nomad” reported about his trip on his YouTube channel. Michael Tubbs released a documentary in November 2014, Without Bound - Perspectives on Mobile Living , in which Wells talks about his life on the street. Wells is one of the people who plays a version of himself in the film. Also in the film, Derek Endres, a young man who lives on the street and hops on trains to travel the country, was found through a street casting. One of the few other roles that has been cast by professional actors is Melissa Smith , who plays Fern's sister Dolly.

In this way, Nomadland became a semi-fictional road movie , a documentary testimony in a narrative framework. With her film debut Songs My Brother Taught Me from 2015, which was filmed on the Pine Ridge reservation in southwest South Dakota, Zhao had already begun to develop a film style that can be described as adaptive realism, films that are very close to real stories and practically indistinguishable from real life. In The Rider , she starred Brady Blackburn with Lakota cowboy Brady Jandreau. The film was inspired by his real life story and was also shot with his real friends and family.

Starting in South Dakota in September 2018, the 36-person crew traveled over six months through Nebraska , Nevada , California and Arizona as the filming for Nomadland continued .

Synchronization, used music and soundtrack

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book by Marius Clarén and the dialogue direction by Susanna Bonaséwicz on behalf of Interopa Film GmbH, Berlin.

The film music was composed by Ludovico Einaudi and comes from his piano cycle and simultaneous seven-part album collection Seven Days Walking from 2019. The music was not written specifically for the film by the Italian composer, who is considered the forefather of neo-classical music. The music was inspired by hikes the prolific composer undertook in the Italian Alps. According to the film's press reports, Einaudi followed the same trail for seven days, but opened up to "the various emotions and stimuli that he experienced in negotiating changing light, temperature, animal and weather conditions". This is how the seven albums with the titles Day One to Day Seven were created , based on these different emotions.

The following were involved in the recording of Seven Days Walking : Einaudi on piano, Federico Mecozzi on violin and viola and Redi Hasa on cello. Zhao also used tracks from Einaudi's 2015 album Elements and 2007's Divenire album . In the film's press releases, Zhao said she found Einaudi's collection appropriate because she was "looking for music that was inspired by nature," because a large part of Fern's development consists in learning to live with nature.

In her review, Caryn James of BBC Culture notes that Ludovico Einaudi's score, with its new age feel, distracts a little from the unshakable realism of the film. A soundtrack album, which in addition to the music of Einaudi also contains pieces of music by Ólafur Arnalds , Cat Clifford , Nat King Cole , Paul Winer , Donnie Miller and Tay Strathairn and partly performed by the cast, was released on February 19, 2021 by Decca Classics published as download. Some of the pieces of music used by Einaudi are also to be released on June 4, 2021 by Decca Records as a download, double CD and double LP as a separate album entitled Cinema.

Marketing and Publishing

The Venice Film Festival in September 2020 was the first major film festival to be held since the coronavirus pandemic began. Masks were compulsory for visitors.

The film was shown for the first time on September 11, 2020 at the Venice International Film Festival and the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival with simultaneous screenings. Later that evening, the film was featured in the special drive-in screening Telluride from Los Angeles, with personal appearances by Chloé Zhao and Frances McDormand. In addition, the New York Film Festival announced Nomadland as the centerpiece of its 58th edition.

The presented already to the premiere movie poster shows based on their license plate number that visited states remote in the film. These are Nevada, California, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Arizona.

At the end of September and beginning of October 2020, Nomadland was shown at the Zurich Film Festival and then at the Hamburg Film Festival as a graduation film, where it celebrated its German premiere. In October 2020 he was also presented at the London Film Festival and at the end of October 2020 at the Viennale . Virtual screenings were held in the United States by Film at Lincoln Center from December 4 to 10, 2020 .

The film ran in selected US cinemas and on Hulu on February 19, 2021 and was due to hit German cinemas on April 8, 2021. However, due to the ongoing lockdown in the wake of the corona pandemic , this date could not be kept. In Canada, the film was released for streaming direct on Star by Disney + on April 9, 2021 .

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a release from the age of 17, among other things because of the nude bathing scene. In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK without any age restriction.

Comment at the time of publication

Alberto Barbera , director of the Venice International Film Festival, describes Nomadland as a courageous and touching journey into a world that exists beneath the radar of mainstream social awareness: “It's a film that has special meaning in a moment of pandemic solitude and proves that values ​​such as mutual support and a strong sense of community can save us from loneliness, failure and despair. I am also pleased to have the opportunity to share this beautiful film with our co-festivals in Telluride, Toronto and New York: a concrete sign of solidarity and cooperation in this unprecedented and difficult time. "

Film analysis

Empire, Nevada

Towards the end of the film, Fern comes back to Empire one more time and looks at the deserted streets

Empire is located in northwest Nevada, about 90 miles north of Reno, south of the Black Rock Desert. In the early 1920s, the Pacific Portland Cement Company began operating a gypsum quarry there . One of the “best gypsum deposits in the world” was located here. In 1948 the US Gypsum Company acquired the mine. In the period that followed, the city boomed, with many workers working in the mining industry. The nearby town of Gerlach also benefited from this and experienced growth. After US Gypsum gave up all production facilities in early 2011 as a result of the economic downturn in the construction industry and thus lost many jobs in Empire, the city first lost many of the already only 217 inhabitants and finally also its own zip code, 89405. Gerlach also suffered from the Closure of the plasterworks.

Film genre

Since almost all participants except McDormand are amateur actors and play fictional versions of themselves in the film, he blurs the line between fact and fiction. As a result, Nomadland is such a documentary testimony in a narrative framework, a semi-fictional and documentary-looking road movie . Fern's “life on the street” is a decision that she doesn't make voluntarily at the beginning, as is the case with the supporting characters, but the film doesn't cast a pitying look at her. Rather, the original American myth of being on the road, of life on the road, condenses in this nomadic life, according to Rudolf Worschech from epd Film . Fern becomes a nomad out of conviction. "She doesn't live like this because she doesn't have the option of living in a house - but because she wants it that way," says the film critic Antje Wessels about the protagonist, who is firmly convinced that she will turn her back on civilization once and for all to sweep.

Since this is also a survival story, even an adventure story, in many ways, Nomadland has been described time and again as an adventure film . Worschech remarks that Nomadland is also something of a western , albeit without Colts.

reception

Reviews

The film has so far won over 94 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and achieved an average rating of 8.8 out of a possible 10 points. On Metacritic he has a Metascore of 98 out of 100 possible points. In addition, Nomadland emerged from the IndieWire Critics Poll as first place in the best films of 2020.

Christian Pogatetz from the Austrian online film magazine Uncut writes director Chloé Zhao draw in her again from a pleasant naturalism permeated and penetrated by rare authenticity NomadsLand a deeply-human, authentic image of a subsociety whose early life was ruined by the consequences of capitalism over all those who have been left behind by the system and who are rarely given the necessary stage. The drama is anything but a criticism of capitalism conveyed with a mallet , but primarily a deeply humanistic work that takes enough time to credibly portray the respective fates of those who suffer and freed from kitsch. The leisurely pace at which the character study advances will certainly cause boredom for some viewers, but the naturalistic staging makes it easy for one in the depicted, often forgotten microcosm of these people who have given up a classic existence in the capitalist heart of America and linger on the fringes of society, to dive in, says Pogatetz: "The intoxicating power of images of the numerous landscape shots invites you to be amazed and creates your own visual poetry that always harmonizes with the content of what is shown." the rest, and Frances McDormand, despite her decades of film experience, effortlessly joins their ranks and gives the impression of a true nomad. Her subtle portrait of an elderly woman who had to go through a lot in the past and who has decided on a new life far from the capital-oriented social center is bursting with empathy and naturalness.

Michael Meyns, in his role as film correspondent for the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater, asks himself whether one should regret or admire the people portrayed in the film: “Is their meager life, which is always hard and uncomfortable, a loss or is it a life without the constraints of society, perhaps a gain with almost complete freedom? ”Chloé Zhao abstains from all judgment and observes the life of the nomads in her typical semi-documentary style, which she developed in her first films, Songs My Brothers Taught Me and The Rider . As breathtaking as the landscapes may be, Zhao does not glorify them, and they do not dramatize the living conditions of the nomads, however harsh they may be. Full of empathy for her characters, she suggests the ambivalence of a life on the street and the difficulty of making friendships or even relationships and keeping them alive. It also suggests the occasional desire to settle down, but also the beauty of sitting around a campfire with a group of like-minded people and telling stories. "For some this may be a nightmare, for others a dream. In Zhao's nomad country , this life is an opportunity that she shows with great empathy, but without kitsch or glorification," says Meyns.

Debate in China

Following the success of the Chinese-born director's film, internet users in her home country wondered whether Zhao, who was educated in the UK and the US, was still a Chinese citizen, and whether she was a Chinese, given some of the comments made in the past about the country can be counted. In 2013 she told Filmmaker magazine , "It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, a place where there are lies everywhere." As a result of this emerging debate, government agencies removed advertising in the spring of 2021 for Nomadland from social media and disabled at least two hashtags associated with the film. A theatrical release planned in China in April 2021 also became questionable as a result.

Awards (selection)

Zhao's directorial work was named one of the ten Movies of the Year 2020 by the American Film Institute . Below is a selection of the nominations and awards.

Director Chloé Zhao

AACTA International Awards 2021

Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards 2020

  • Award for best film
  • Award for the best director (Chloé Zhao)
  • Nomination for Best Director (Chloé Zhao)
  • Award for the best adapted screenplay (Chloé Zhao)
  • Nomination for Best Screenwriter (Chloé Zhao)
  • Award for Best Actress (Frances McDormand)
  • Best Cinematography Award ( Joshua James Richards )
  • Award for the best film editing (Chloé Zhao)

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2021

  • Nomination for Best Cinematography (Joshua James Richards)

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2020

British Academy Film Awards 2021

British Independent Film Awards 2020

  • Best International Independent Film award

Camerimage 2020

  • Awarded the Golden Frog (Joshua James Richards)
  • Awarded the FIPRESCI Prize

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2020

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2021

Directors Guild of America Awards 2021

  • Award for best fiction film director (Chloé Zhao)

Eddie Awards 2021

  • Nomination for Best Editing in a Film Drama (Chloé Zhao)

Film Fest Gent 2020

  • Nomination for best film for the Grand Prix

Golden Globe Awards 2021

Golden Reel Awards 2021

  • Nomination for the best sound editing in dialogues

Gotham Awards 2021

Independent Spirit Awards 2021

  • Award for best film
  • Award for the best director (Chloé Zhao)
  • Nomination for Best Actress (Frances McDormand)
  • Best Cinematography Award (Joshua James Richards)
  • Award for the best film editing (Chloé Zhao)

Venice International Film Festival 2020

London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2021

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2020

Montclair Film Festival 2020

  • Awarded the audience award

National Board of Review Awards 2021

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2021

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2020

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2021

Academy Awards 2021

Palm Springs International Film Festival 2021

  • Award as Director of the Year (Chloé Zhao)

Producers Guild of America Awards 2021

  • Award for best feature film (Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey & Chloé Zhao)

San Francisco Film Awards 2020

  • Honored with the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction (Chloé Zhao)

Satellite Awards 2020

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2021

Telluride Film Festival 2020

  • Awarded the Silver Medallion Award (Chloé Zhao)

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2021

  • Award for best film
  • Award for the best director (Chloé Zhao)
  • Best Actress Award (Frances McDormand)
  • Runner-up for the best script

Toronto International Film Festival 2020

USC Scripter Awards 2021

literature

  • Jessica Brother: Nomadland. Surviving America in the twenty-first century . WW Norton & Company, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-393-24931-6 .
  • Jessica Brother: Nomads of Labor. Survival in the US in the 21st century . Blessing, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-89667-630-6 .

Web links

Commons : Nomadland  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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