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Nomadland

2020 · Drama · Chloé Zhao · 1h 47m

After her town in Nevada empties out, a woman in her sixties packs her life into a van and takes seasonal work across the American west. Not much plot, real people playing themselves, a lot of sky.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly slow
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Clearly simple

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