“I have always had a fascination with the American West,”
confesses Chloe Zhao who, in just three films, has amply demonstrated it. Starting with his first film in 2015,
Songs that my brothers taught me
, a fascinating dive into life on a Native American reservation in South Dakota. Two years later, his first attempt was brilliantly confirmed with
The Rider
, a poignant portrait of a former rodeo champion dented by existence who is trying to rebuild himself after a serious accident. And this year in
Nomadland,
Golden Lion at the last Venice Film Festival, where she explores the community of road nomads living in their vans.
After a Golden Globe and a Bafta for best director, she won the Oscar in the same category on Sunday evening.
The consecration for the thirty-nine-year-old Chinese filmmaker who has been able to renew the codes of a genre in an original way and thus take the pulse of a certain America on the fringes by taking an empathetic gaze on
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