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Nomadland: Why Chloé Zhao’s anti-capitalist odyssey should win the Oscar

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Nomadland, directed by the Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, is part of a long lineage of non-American American art, from Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas to Andrea Arnold’s American Honey.

It grapples with grief, the betrayals of capitalism, and the lure of the open road. It’s the greatest film of the year, and more than a worthy Best Picture winner at this Sunday’s Oscars.

Fern (a wry and friendly Frances McDormand) was once comfortable. She and her husband lived in Empire, a small town in Nevada sustained by a single employer.

Then the employer, a sheetrock manufacturer, pulled out of the town, sending it into total collapse. Fern’s husband got sick shortly after, then died.

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