Nomadland Review: Another Phenomenal Film from Director Chloé Zhao - TIFF 2020
Vložit
- čas přidán 12. 09. 2020
- Chloé Zhao's Nomadland stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman who chooses to live in a van and drive the highways of America’s West. Catch Perri and Kristy Puchko's thoughts on the movie in this Nomadland review from TIFF 2020!
You can watch Perri and Kristy's full TIFF 2020 discussion right here: • The Best of TIFF 2020 ...
#Nomadland #TIFF20 #FrancesMcDormand
► Support Perri on Patreon: / perrinemiroff
► Predictions with Perri League: fantasymovieleague.com/perri
League Password: perri
► See More of Perri's Videos: / perri-nemiroff
► Follow Perri on Twitter: / pnemiroff
► Follow Perri on Instagram: / pnemiroff - Zábava
Marvy and I have been living in our van for over a year and a half. Up in the NW now, but as the snow comes, we will work our way back to the Yuma desert for winter. Loved the book Nomadland and have been interview by Bob Wells for both our van and also my Walk Across America. I am really looking forward to the film, not as much for "Fern" but rather to see how our lifestyle is shared accurately with the world.
I really enjoyed the story but didn't think the name matched the story. Unfortunately many people in the rat race will stereotype nomads and its farther from the truth as you both and I know.
I'm looking forward to seeing this, just heard about it today. I've been living vanlife for the most of 40-years. There is no endgame, it's a moment to moment experience.
Every time Fern said goodbye to someone, I cried. I use to work at a camp ground and I met some of the most incredible people but whenever they said goodbye I never knew if I would see them again. The setting I. This movie was beautiful and quiet and I loved for it!
Phenomenal absolutely phenomenal.Frances is possibly the greatest living actress.
You don't even know when you are manipulated.
@@gabevachon326 interesting outlook
I think I am part of this film in the backround... I remember them filming several years ago at the RTR..
This was an amazing film. I was worried that all of the normal movie tropes were going to happen to her and it's so nice that the movie never went there it just went where life took her. I do feel this film wasn't about choices but the the things in our lives that shape what we choose in the end. And it is wonderful to observe and experience my own personal emotional attachment to objects or the simple matter of normal bodily functions.
This is not a new lifestyle. People have been living in cars, vans, utility trailers, and RVs for years....even decades. Some choose it....some are forced into it due to life circumstances and economics....but people find a new way to life....new friends....a new family....a new way of defining....LIFE. These people are not homeless....they are houseless....and they have turned their back on chasing the American dream.
The rider was great. As was stories my brother taught me. I’d actually love it if she continues this little journey through Americas “left behind”
I am really looking forward to seeing this film. In 1962at 21, I took 6 months to go around the US with my new husband. We had a Lambretta motor scooter & $50. We sang in bars and passed the hat. People took us home. Nevada people were amazing, but there were people all over who were wonderful. We stayed a week with Amon Hennessy at the Salt Lake City Catholic Worker & we helped Amon with chores. We stayed with Dorothy Day in NYC & Staten Island. We visited icons of Progressive politics all over. We were sent to the Mississippi Free Press office in Jackson & got put up at Jackson State College. (I had to ride on the floor of the car so as not to be hassled by cops). I have a million stories.
You two did a great review. Thank you.
The movie to me is about the small details because in life those are the real treasures, the things we tend to take for granted. I loved the analogy of the ring. That it represents infinity. The circle of life. The road she roams on. Love. Chloe is the real deal!
Have to admit hearing the high praise this movie is getting makes me over the moon excited for Eternals
She could make Eternals great, if only Victoria Alonso doesn’t take charge and mess the story
Very different kind of movie from her prior films, but they did strike gold getting a director as well liked as her.
@@samueljohn3383 what do you mean?
I think I'd have high hopes, but reasonable expectations. Other films like "Songs my brothers taught me", "The Rider" and "Nomadland", were ones where she was involved with the writing, directing and editing. With a big-budget, super hero film, her creative potential will likely be curtailed and more decisions would need to be approved by committee.
Still, it is a good decision to pick Ms. Zhao to direct the Eternals. I hope she'll be making great films for a long time. I haven't seen Nomadland, but "The Rider" is excellent.
@@kh884488 I think the worry is that she won't be able to pull off stuff like action scenes, effects sequences and a big cast of characters because those all seem very different to how she is as a director. Some directors can do those well despite not coming from big budgets. Like I think DC's gambles with getting less experienced directors have actually paid off well, Shazam, Wonder Woman and Birds of Prey are far better directed than most MCU films.
I’m seeing it in two weeks virtually. Super pumped!
I would disagree that the film doesn’t have a plot, per se. I think the underlying plot of the film is Fern dealing with her immense grief and finding closure on her old life.
But she isn't finding closure. She turns down several good places to live and shuts down a good relationship with David Strathairn. She is too happy stuck in self pity to get her life out of neutral. What is so captivating about that?
@@gabevachon326 sometimes we are not ready to live what's good for us....there are things we have to learn, step by step..... miserably.....sometimes, happily other times......." You'll know what to do when the time comes" I was told when I prayed for guidance....and boy, did I eff up..but I learned a lot, and that's the most important thing, isn't it?
@@elsajones6325 Another troubling aspect to this is her nomad wanderings are not sustainable. Fern has to borrow $2300 to get her van fixed. Where did the money go from the Amazon job? Fern said the money was great. Where is it then? So her family has to work real jobs so she can stare at sunsets and waves all day? Well...the bravery of that choice evades me.
@@gabevachon326 freedom to choose, live comfortably or die out in the open.....sounds good to me. So far.....we haven't been herded into concentration camps (FEMA?)....yet...so there's the good in it!
@@gabevachon326 something else about loss and grief; it can take weeks or decades to get past it. Some people never do. ..and as family, we help those who need us when we can. Wandering the Earth is not as bad as alcohol and drug use
The " bucket thing " isn't a big deal with vanners , pooping in porcelain rather than plastic doesnt make poop more valuable . 😃
You two are great reviewers.
I have no Zhaot now that Eternals will be phenomenal
😏
If people like reality shows hey...this is a movie about watching someone live a life with very little drama. I loved this movie. It's basically a docuDrama. It reminded me of another movie about someone who chooses to live his life out from the "norm". That movie is Into The Wild, I only wished I could have seen this on a big screen. The scenery and cinematography looks stunning!! I love that line..."I'm not homeless...I'm houseless". Her home and the nomads homes are vans and campers and whatever they choose a mobile way of living.
Thank you for your contribution.
Stunning film indeed.
I saw Mantz's review of this and now it's got the Nemiroff seal of approval, I'm 1000% in. Awards contender or is this year too bonkers to even think about those things?
A Cautionary Reality: I don't have to read the book to already know the outcome, though I have read it. I don't have to see this movie to understand what is going on. I'm in a Solo Van Woman's group and I hear the stories every single day. A woman gets married, has kids, takes care of the kids, and the husband divorces her as soon as they are out of the house, and she is destitute. She didn't work a career to fall back on, but stayed home for the kids. Same old story. Over and over again. Then the husband leaves or dies. She is without any working skill due to not being employed for years. It's a curse on the whole gender really. Every day, I read about them. Older women who are abandoned by their spouses for a younger model. Then there are the women who get sick, and either the husband leaves them because it is a prolonged illness, or she is single and has no insurance. This is a travesty in the the USA. It's all planned too. The agenda in the 19650s was to keep women home pushing out babies. Make more slave labor. The women never got to work, like they did while helping out and succeeding greatly in WWII. They were resigned back to their house prisons. It's why the 1960s women rights ERA was born. Women were sick of being treated like slaves, second class citizens. (Women were the first slaves since man began. We were treated as property. Now it hides under the guise of child care). The women on the road are very brave and resilient. Much stronger than any man I've ever met. They preserver and prevail their circumstances. Yes, they live in vans, and more of them are becoming broke & poor and pushed into it. instead of crying about it, they succeed, as they always have done. It's sad to see it. These women live on SSI only, and they are scoffed at by those who have jobs; like somehow they deserve their plight for raising the kids. Jobs are becoming less and less as the push towards more robotics since the 1960s. The tech has pushed so many out of the market as well. It's coming for EVERYONE. Not just women. Not just the sick. Not just the millennial. EVERYONE. More robotics are coming with the 5G towers and 5G stateliness, which will run this whole tech/robotic madness into no jobs for anyone. We won't be owning robots, the rich will. We will all be out of jobs, men & women. Unless we refuse to buy into the tech, the shove toward online banking only, (which has accelerated due to the pandemic), the robotics, we will all be homeless. Unless we come up with a National Medical Plan for all US citizens, you are one major illness away from living in your car. The rich own 85% of th world's wealth. The COVID Pandemic has pushed most small business owners out into bankruptcy. Do you think this is not something the rich are taking advantage of in their plan for a One World Order fo robotics and tech to run it all? Doctors will be out of business soon. They have robotic tech for it. Try and get human on the phone with any business these days. Most are robotic prompts. We have to bring back permaculture, rely less on electric, Less on tech, less on distractions and become communities again and barter. Pay with a check or cash. Meanwhile, more and more women are becoming homeless. First it's the women, the Vets with drug problems, and drug addicts. Our Millenials. Soon it will be the men. We are living in the land of the free when you are born into a slave system with a birth certificate and SSI number to track and charge your every working day and taxed? Anyway, sorry for the rant, but this is the world going down the toilet. When will everyone wake up? Stop buying off this site and other huge corporation's sites. Stop paying into the big corporations. Buy local. Buy organic. Barter. Buy LESS. Save more. Buy a plot of land and grow food. Permaculture is the future. Living on a smaller footprint is our only choice now that the rich have absconded with all of the wealth and land resources. At the top of the Pyramid scheme we have the Jesuits, Vatican, The Queen (who owns more Hectares of land than anyone), and the 13 richest families, other royal oligarch families. Below them, the World Banks, where they keep their wealth besides owning most of the prime real estate and lands in this world. Next are the corporations, & resources controlled by them, then smaller businesses, then Next are the religions, secret services, Police, military all owned by the rich and their laws, indoctrinating education, and media (owned by corporations), then at the bottom of the pyramid scheme is US. The working slave, the labor units. To think that it will just be women destitute is wrong. There are millennials who are living this way as well. Our future generation is already houseless. As the tech & robotics gets more advanced, we become obsolete. We are too busy looking at our iPhones, iPods, TV. It's all distraction. Stop using all of it. This book is a cautionary true story, not a tale.
There is wisdom in your words. However, the issues you talk about are NOT what this movie is about. Those issues are presents but are never really the focus of this beautiful film.
Christ....another " Woke" indictment of America....this time by a wealthy actress and a Chinese-American director who thrives in a country that gave her everything. And the Fern character lives like this by CHOICE. You get it? She turns down 3 places to live and turns away a budding romance. All the rowboats sent to help....she pushes away. Okay,fine. Clean vomit off toilets for a living and defecate into a bucket after eating Campbell soup all the time. You CANNOT be serious......
@@gabevachon326 Clearly there is allot you might be dealing with, but I think you missed the forest for the trees. This film has nothing to do with woke and more to do with emotional broke and recovering. This movie is a love letter to America not an indictment. It's a portrait of a number of REAL American's that have found their truth by giving up not only the bonds of possessions, but financial and emotional bonds that "permanent" employment and some types of relationships create. This woman has played that game and has experienced the loss of those things. She doesn't want to do it again and SHE feels that the loss of all these things we as a society says are important is less of a loss than going through the loss these other things. It's that brave freedom of choice to do something different that actually celebrates these people and this country. And sometimes it takes someone that came from the outside like THIS director show it.
@@malestorm234 Fern is not free. She has to borrow $2300 to get her van fixed rather than work a steady job to underwrite this lifestyle. I would say to her, "You have credentials. Why not teach in Vegas?"
@@gabevachon326 It didn't seem to me that she loved the guy. So living with him is not a choice.
"This movie isn't interested in the politics, it's interested in the people". Maybe that's why viewers can so easily relate to the characters and be pulled into their emotions and into this movie.
Cannot wait for this movie! Give me all things Frances McDormand! Also, your co-host Kristy is such a breath of fresh air! She's amazing! Great review you two 💕
It sucked
Where can this film be seen?
Oh man I loved the rider so I’m sooo excited for nomadland
I believe if you work hard you still can achieve the American dream. That dream was shared everywhere in the world. But not just working hard, Americans need to save money as well and learn how to diversify or not rely on one income. They shouldn't rely too much on 401K or worst, SS income for their retirement. Learn how to invest their savings in other things. The education system doesn't teach that at all. I learn all things that improved my life outside my schools. Thanks to the internet!
#vanlife has been a popular hashtag for a long time. Younger people see it as a way to save the rent money. Older people see it as a way to live on their own and they don't like to live on government housing assistance. Their bravery should be pointed out as well. Society needs to respect them for their independent spirit. They are really not homeless just houseless.
Home is where you park....
Ha! Investing in the stock market killed many of us.
My brother has a small part in this film and I have been waiting to see it
The book.is good. It's what started my interest in 'nomads'..retired rv dwellers .
So proud of u Zhao , believe u would be as good as Ann lee , really appreciate ur talents,!
Are you kidding? This is the most overhyped shit movie since " Blair Witch".
This was an amazing review of an an amazing movie. I'm curious now how she'll do The Eternals
Enjoyed the book, a portrayal of folks displaced but not finished.
Nomadland will take home the Oscars, has what many movies ingredients: sad lonely character finds her way in life in a van, but has no happy ending (unlike 3 Billboards or Fargo). Shows her loneliness living in van and poverty in American. Nomadland may win best director and best picture for the Oscars.
Going to start VanLife in late March. Prepping and building my camper van for way too long...!
Wow! Good luck Suze!!
The book isn't even listed in the notes.
I can't see this film appealing to the youngster's,there's no special effects or fast edits or people with super powers or ridiculous dialogue that always appeals to teenagers and twenty somethings in my experience.
Given an opportunity to just sit there and watch it I think youngsters could enjoy this film. And it's important for them to see it because maybe they can help fix some of the issues talked about in this film. I also liked how it wasn't just the older generation pictured in this film.
Millennials or the new generation have no clue what movies are in these days! For them it’s all special effects and some stupid marvel shit ...
@@vapalaca No need to tear down to build up. Marvel makes some good shit!
⭐
Great show. 😊
Ebeggar land would be more appropriate title.
I thought the movie was relentlessly boring. If I had to watch this twice, you might as well throw a stone in the fire for me.
I give you credit for trying to watch it, anyway. :-)
The Eternals is a paycheck. Nothing shameful about it, but MCU is an established brand and I wouldn't expect Zhao's voice to shine through.
The "girl meets boy and lives happily ever after" is over......everything is changing and the pretend world of Hollywood is long gone. ....the captivating storytelling ended decades ago.....evident in the endless redoing of old movies and failing every time...bombing at the box office and losing money.....THEN the fake awards for an undeserving performance......boring!!.... But now...something real
We are very lucky in Australia, we have a welfare system that sustains people indefinitely.....then again we only have 27m people
Did you guys already knew this was semi-documentary before seeing it? Because I didn’t know all these people were real when watching it (like I didn’t know anything about just any films before seeing it), and I got bored by it 😕