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Pop sensation St. Vincent, known for her very eccentric performances
and over-the-top on-stage persona, hires her best friend Carrie Brownstein
to make a documentary about her while on tour, wanting to show the world
not only who she is on stae but also who she is in real life - and she
figures who better to do this than her best friend. Only following her
around pretty much everywhere, Carrie soon has to notice St. Vincent is
actually a disappointingly normal and (as theme for a movie of course)
pretty dull person - pretty much the opposite of whom she
portrays/pretends to be. She tries to tell St. Vincent very subtly to
spice things up a bit for the camera, but that only undermines St.
Vincent's self-confidence - until she snaps that is, and instead of being
herself starts portraying what Carrie (supposedly) wants to see ... only a
hundred times worse. And this really goes from Carrie having to shoot a
sex tape of her and her "new girlfriend" Dakota Johnson to
hiring actors to portray her stereotypical Texas family - complete with
shooting in the yard and playing country music. It's not long before
Carrie wants out - but really can't when she hears how proud her
terminally ill dad (Michael Bofshever) is of her for making this movie. So
it's really not long before she snaps ... The concept of this
movie is really hard to beat - and successful eccentric musician making a
mockumentary about herself promising to show the real her, instead sending
the audience into a maze that shows any number of versions of herself,
none of which might be true. And really it doesn't matter what's true
because the film is lots of fun, it's part comedy, part David Lynchian
weirdness, and in many instances a really amusing guessing game with
hardly any downtime. Also, it doesn't matter whether or not you're even
aware of who St. Vincent is (and I wasn't prior to this film) to utterly
enjoy The Nowhere Inn.
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