Jeff Nichols is a strange director. He makes movies about the forgotten Americans, the white working and lower classes of the Midwest, but it’s only European festivals that really take an interest. His protagonists are invariably men, yet it’s the feminist classes in the media or at the Oscars that applaud him. Roger Ebert championed his first movies in the 2000s, Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter. Then in the 2010s, Mud, starring Matthew McConaughey, competed in Cannes for the Palme d’Or and at SXSW, and the sci-fi drama Midnight Special competed in Berlin for the Golden Bear, while his civil rights picture Loving was competing in Cannes and receiving Oscar and Golden Globes nominations.
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