Five sides of Frances McDormand
She once said that in her old age she would like to retire to a caravan, away from the madding crowd, where she could live like a civilian. Shortly afterwards, she starred in Nomadland, where she had the chance to partially live this thought. She is the actress who lost her Oscar a few years ago at the after-party, when a man slipped the statuette under his suit and presumably ran away with it. She is the partner of director Joel Coen (half of the Coen Brothers), who often casts her in his movies. You wouldn't go so far as to call her a muse, maybe a subversive one; all the movies she stars in, there's something mannish and gutsy in her pace and speech, which is why she often appears in movies with deadpan humor (even the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, about dysfunctional families and mental illness, has a hint of Fargo/Twin Peaks, in that the protagonist, played by McDormand, is a snappy mother/wife/teacher who takes it out on whomever comes her way, but is unequivocally adorable while doing so). She collaborates on a regular basis with certain authors (be it Coen, Lisa Cholodenko, or Wes Anderson), as well as certain actors with whom she co-stars on many occasions (Olive Kitteridge's husband is also her former boss in Burn After Reading; Bill Murray appears in Olive Kitteridge, as well as in Moonrise Kingdom).
Journalist and film critic, with a master's degree in film critics. Collaborates with Scena9, Acoperișul de Sticlă, FILM and FILM Menu magazines. For Films in Frame, she brings the monthly top of films and writes the monthly editorial Panorama, published on a Thursday. In her spare time, she retires in the woods where she pictures other possible lives and flying foxes.
