The “magic hour” widescreen cinematography of Joshua James Richards and a gorgeous piano score by Ludovico Einaudi make the feeling all the more palpable.įern has every reason to ponder the meaning of home. Yet these Morrissey lyrics nail the essential quest of “Nomadland,” a movie that speaks to modern disillusionment, rootlessness and resiliency in both poetic and profound ways. (It was also my choice for best film of 2020.) More obvious allusions are Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” Morrissey may not be the first artist that comes to mind with Chloé Zhao’s cinematic portrait of restless roamers of the American West, the odds-on favourite to win Best Picture and potentially five other awards at the April 25 Oscars. “Home, is it just a word? / Or is it something you carry within you?” reads one couplet, which Angela describes as her favourite. Early in “Nomadland,” Frances McDormand’s itinerant worker Fern watches as Angela, a fellow Amazon warehouse employee, shows off an arm tattooed with song lyrics by the British singer-songwriter Morrissey.
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