"I can’t live in this room.” Frances McDormand’s van-dwelling character utters these unequivocal words during a crucial exchange in Nomadland, one that unfolds in the guest room of a suburban house.
A strikingly similar rejection of a well-meaning offer — of shelter, of security — takes place near the end of Ammonite when Kate Winslet’s 19th century paleontologist surveys a well-appointed chamber meant to inspire her with its creature comforts. “You presumed I’d just be fitted into your life here,” she tells the woman she loves. “You don’t understand me.” Delivering two of the most indelible lead performances of 2020, McDormand and Winslet portray ferociously independent women.
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