The Nowhere Inn

Name: The Nowhere Inn
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Music
Released: September 17, 2021
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Carrie Brownstein, Chris Aquilino, Dakota Johnson, Drew Connick, Erica Acevedo

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IFC Films | Release Date: September 17, 2021 | NR

Starring: Carrie Brownstein, Chris Aquilino, Dakota Johnson, Drew Connick, Erica Acevedo, Ezra Buzzington, Sarah Tither-Kaplan, Sean Liang, St. Vincent, Tema Louise Sall, Toko Yasuda

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.

Director: Bill Benz

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Music

Rating: NR

Runtime: 92 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Feb 1, 2020

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. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Sep 16, 2021

While St. Vincent’s The Nowhere Inn is not the standard performative music documentary, it opens a window to her soul that many are never able to give away so freely in front of the camera. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Sep 17, 2021

Layered storytelling that tests the limits of the screen and the fourth wall allows for Clark and Brownstein to play at playing themselves, making for a sharp, comedic commentary on the way fame complicates identity. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Carlos Aguilar

Sep 17, 2021

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. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Sep 13, 2021

As you’d imagine, the entire shebang is so naggingly self-referential, and so noisy with in-jokes, that it should, by rights, disappear up its own trombone. But there’s a saving grace: this is a funny movie. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 16, 2021

Formally lively, The Nowhere Inn is a true meta exercise in the sense that the more derivative and self-conscious its conceptual gambits seem (stick around: The reflexivity continues after the end credits), the more it proves its ostensible point. Read full review

Simon Abrams

Feb 1, 2020

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. Read full review

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SjShane

Sep 20, 2021

Possibly one of the most entertaining and well written identity crises I’ve seen on film. The Nowhere Inn challenges the concept of battling the difference between who we really are and who we portray ourselves to be, then flips the concept on it’s head and asks “Who are we if not our ownPossibly one of the most entertaining and well written identity crises I’ve seen on film. The Nowhere Inn challenges the concept of battling the difference between who we really are and who we portray ourselves to be, then flips the concept on it’s head and asks “Who are we if not our own creations?”. The film offers stunning visuals and concepts, while consistently offering some very quirky humor throughout it’s run. However I do strongly recommend anyone unfamiliar Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein to give them a quick read up on the internet prior to watching, as the film seems to be under the impression you know of them already and there are plenty of jokes and references to their works and personal lives that may not be understood by newcomers. Ironically the film may be self aware of this, as seen with the Limo intro “I’m not for everyone”, and Carrie stating the documentary is for the fans.

It will be fair to say the film won’t be for everyone either, with it’s zany mix of comedy and drama, and Lynch inspired philosophical psychological horror on thrown on top of it, it may be a hard watch for those just wanting wanting a relaxing popcorn flick. However with it’s well crafted writing, visuals and directing, if you’re open to this rollercoaster ride, it may very well just stick with you for a while. Also surprisingly noteworthy performance from Annie Clark (St. Vincent), who changed her persona throughout the film on numerous occasions, and managed to pull in an array of emotions and feelings to her character.… Expand

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likeurfaketears

Oct 3, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. if you wanna watch an entertaining movie, the nowhere inn would be a good choice, it's funny, good cinematography, good script, and the concert footage is perfect too, but i didn't enjoy how fast the transition between annie and st vincent happened, that'd be my only complain… Expand

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JLuis_001

Jan 12, 2022

Between wanting to be a sort of meta-documentary/concert/drama film with horror overtones, The Nowhere Inn ends up empty-handed in an attempt full of undeveloped ideas that ultimately ends up saying absolutely nothing.

I would've preferred a concert film. It would've been more exciting.

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