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- 2021
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 31 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 31 m
Summary St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, but when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.
Directed By: Bill Benz
Written By: Carrie Brownstein, St. Vincent
- 2021
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 31 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 31 m
The Nowhere Inn
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6.8
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Summary St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, but when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.
Directed By: Bill Benz
Written By: Carrie Brownstein, St. Vincent
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
60
60% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
At times a bit too enamored of these loose conceits, The Nowhere Inn sometimes registers as a cheap fuck-with-the-audience provocation that might have been better suited for a viral short (or several), but at its finest moments the movie conjures a singular vision steeped in zaniness, but not devoid of purpose.
Director Bill Benz (best known for episodes of Portlandia), Clark, and Brownstein have a good deal of fun playing the business side of show business—the documentary filmmaker trying to find a unique angle between concert footage, or the star having to take mundane questions from the press in each city she visits on tour. It both documents an identify crisis and doesn’t.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.8
63% Positive
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The Nowhere Inn deeply explores the dynamic between performer and audience and performer with self. It does so in a way I’ve never seen before. It has so many layers that at some point, you get lost in the thick of it, but in a good way.
Plenty watchable and inspired from a visual standpoint, The Nowhere Inn is a less refined and less provocative relative of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Brady Corbet's Vox Lux, or Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine.
As a ballad about a rock star’s soul, The Nowhere Inn is a fun riff performed on flimsy strings.
The film is elevated by funny, cleverly staged sequences, but it too often hammers the notion that fame destroys authenticity.
The Nowhere Inn . . . is a collection of comedic and musical sketches that are not funny, weird or thoughtful enough to sell its creators’ insistent, but mostly trite and undeveloped, ideas about the performative nature of self-fashioning and creative authenticity.
