Francis McDormand plays Fern, an unemployed woman, in The Land of No One.
At the just-concluded 77th Venice Film Festival, Chinese female director Zhao Ting's new work "The Land of No One" won the Golden Lion Award, and the film is adapted from Jessica Brudd's 2017 documentary novel "The Land of No One: Surviving in America in the 21st Century", which tells the story of a woman in her 60s who lost everything in the Great Depression and began a journey through the western United States as a modern nomad living in a caravan.
The film's actress, Francis McDormand, 63, won the 1997 and 2018 Oscars for Best Actress for Ice Storm and Three Billboards, respectively. When McDormand learned of the award for "The Land of NoWhere," she said she had always dreamed of going on the road. At the age of 45, she told her husband (the famous American director Joel Cohen) that she planned to change her name to Fern when she was 65 years old, "and start smoking 'Haocai' brand cigarettes, drinking 'Wei Feng' brand whiskey, driving on the road." Today, her dream has come true.
On the evening of September 11, US time, the Telluride Film Festival held a screening of "No Man's Land" at the Rose Bowl Car Theater in Pasadena, California. McDormand expressed his true feelings through the role in the film, "As an actor, no matter how much money I make, as long as I can't manipulate my life, it still has no meaning." 」 It's like learning to make vulgar jokes and dump feces into a vat of feces in order to experience a wandering and embarrassing life during filming. In fact, it takes a lot of courage to admit that you have been humiliated by life. ”
McDormand and Zhao Ting were filmed on location in The Land of NoBody.
The winner of "The Land of No Man" at the Venice Film Festival makes Zhao Ting the first female director to win the Golden Lion Award for "Somewhere" 10 years ago, and zhao Ting is also the first Asian filmmaker to win the award since Indian director Mila Nair won the award for "The Monsoon Wedding" in 2001. It is reported that "No Man's Land" will be released in North America on December 4, and it is very likely to impact the 2021 Oscar awards.
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Source: Beijing News