(ANSA) - VENICE, 11 SEPTEMBER - When in a bar in Nebraska a Frances McDormand asked if she needed a job, the two-time Oscar-winning actress (Fargo and Three Posters in Ebbing, Missouri), many other awards including a cup Volpi in Venice for America today by Robert Altman, is run by ChloeZhao, the director of Nomadland, happy: "it's done, it works, I'm Fern".
She transformed once again into a woman of courage, a woman who had no discounts but who set out on the road, indeed on the road, choosing to leave the house now empty after the death of her husband, in the now empty country of Empire, lost in the Nevada desert and swept away by economic changes (plasterboards were produced, but now they are no longer sold), and driving a vintage van he drives around the immense American spaces of the West in complete solitude.
"I traveled to seven states for five months - the actress, Joel Coen's wife connecting from the living room - and met these nomads who are a large community in America. The film wanted to respect their lives, I was a discreet presence, I tried to to understand the truth of their life, to identify myself, playing 'if I were one of them'. What did they leave me as a gift? He wants to make me cry - the actress tells ANSA, who is moved - but I answer: great humility ".
Getting into the vans of these people, adds Zhao, a Chinese director who symbolizes the new independent American cinema, but not only since she is expected in the hall for a Marvel Movie, The Eternals - "listening to their lives was not difficult, they were surprised by our interest. but they were keen to make known the choices and lifestyle of this community which, despite the extreme independence of individuals, is a real community that creates a network and helps each other ".
How much America is there in Nomadland today?
"A lot - the actress replies to ANSA - the people who live in the vans on the street are an American phenomenon that today has become gigantic, the result of the growing diversity between those who have and those who don't have, accentuated in recent times by the effects of the lockdown, the economic disparities are the cause of this but not only, there are many people who change their lives because they do not recognize themselves in the dictates of consumerism ".
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