Oscar Winner, Nomadland, this Sunday
- Posted by Claire Thomas
- On 6th October 2021
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Our Flix in the Stix season continues on this Sunday, 10th October, with the Oscar-winning film Nomadland staring Frances McDormand.
Left with nothing but a broken heart, widowed Fern, a former substitute teacher, finds herself
forced out of her home in Empire, Nevada, when the local U.S. Gypsum plant closed the mine,
and with it, the town, in 2011. Faced with a bleak economic future, Fern crams her scanty,
memory-laden belongings into a beat-up, second-hand van and hits the road, travelling from
town to town, state to state, in search of work opportunities.
As dignified Fern adopts a nomadic, hand-to-mouth lifestyle, along the way, she meets other kindred spirits, silver-haired, fellow modern-day nomads, whose entire generation suffered a crippling blow after the 2008 financial collapse. But, when the world is collapsing around you, and memories are all we have
left, is home just a word?
Tea, Coffee and homemade cake served from 7pm, film starts at 7.30pm
Tickets £5 from the Centre office or on the door
01342 833893 enquiries@lingfieldcentre.org