How outsider Chloe Zhao captured the American heartland in Nomadland – NEWS.com.au

If theres a filmmaker who was going to capture the humanity of the American heartland, you might not expect it to be a petite woman from Beijing.Nomadland is Chinese-born Chloe Zhao’s third feature, a ruminative and emotionally poignant story about a woman in her 60s who lives a nomadic life out of a camper van after her Nevada company town collapses in the wake of the GFC.
Already a favourite on the festival circuit after her first two films, Songs My Brother Taught Me and The Rider, Zhao is about…

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