OSCARS FINALLY SHOW WOMEN R.E.S.P.E SOME .C.T
Apr 24, 2021
3 minutes
NELANDRI NARIANAN
‘NO, I’M not homeless. I’m just houseless. Not the same thing, right?” Poignant words by the protagonist of Nomadland, the film – up for an Oscar tomorrow night – that shook a dying cinematic world awake this year.
Frances McDormand, also up for the best actress award, says those words as Fern, a barbed 60-something widow from Empire, a town devastated by the closure of its mining operations as a result of the Great Recession. She packs up her van and travels the US Midwest as
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