The Nowhere Inn

Funny in 1 hour and 32 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $54,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I appreciated the ambition of doing something different, but the execution just didn't work. It wasn't deadpan enough to be a hilarious mockumentary. It wasn't consistent and darkly absurd enough to be a proper Lynchian nightmare. Since I really enjoy St. Vincent's music, I would've been happy with just and old-fashioned documentary with plenty of music and background information, but it didn't really do that either. Bit of a wasted opportunity I'm afraid.

This is what might have happened if David Lynch had directed "Spinal Tap." An absurdist, satirical mockumentary. I have never seen St. Vincent in concert, and am familiar with only a handful of her songs, and still enjoyed this immensely. Come prepared to laugh at a couple of excellent artists who don't take themselves at all seriously and you'll have a fine time.

I'm a big fan of both St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein. I'm not sure what they were trying to do with this movie. After trying to watch it on 3 different occasions, it still just leaves me indifferent.

I initially watched it for Dakota Johnson and that's always an extra. I liked St Vincent though. This movie was so trippy but it was decent.

The Nowhere Inn is an interesting idea for a film but I think a film that never really goes anywhere. Comedian, singer and director Carrie Brownstein wrote this film with friend and fellow musician Annie Clark, otherwise known as St Vincent. I guess it's done in the style of a mock documentary. Wherby Carrie follows St Vincent on the road purporting to make a doco about her life on and off the road. I'll admit I'm not a fan of St Vincent as a perfomer so even the real live concert footage wasn't really exciting for me. The meat of the film though is Carrie as 'director' struggling to make St Vincent more interesting off stage. It gets quite strange at times but honestly I wished it had got more weird. So I was left with a film with a few ideas strung together but nothing terribly convincing.

St Vincent is amazing.

Part art film, part comedy.

You have to be a fan to enjoy (and understand) this dully piece of crap. The boring life of Annie --that the film is too eager to show-- in the first half translates to the boring and over-acted attitude of SV on the second half, and ultimately makes the whole film a pointless and fake pseudo-drama. If the purpose was to make a silly, fake, boring and senseless mockumentary to keep feeding the ego of St. Vicent, then the filmakers certainly succeded.

This was the greatest movie I have ever seen on every level