The Nowhere Inn

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.

I am a fan of St. Vincent and have been for years now. I am also a huge Portlandia fan; Carrie Brownstein's off-beat humor is something that I can and have enjoyed. Because of that, I was excited to watch this film, and truly thought I could handle whatever oddities were thrown my way. I was stupid to think so highly of myself. I felt out of step with this film as soon as it started and never really fell into rhythm with whatever was going on. I loved the music sequences and really enjoyed seeing Annie Clark acting (even if she was playing herself)

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

I really enjoyed this mockumentary. I will start with the obvious: the live performances footage is beautifully filmed, focusing on the little gestures and stage shenanigangs that all St Vincent fans have come to love. I think it's a brave "performance" of St Vincent since development-wise her character is not portrayed in the nicest light possible, so to speak. Obviously it's clear to everyone that it's, yes, a mockumentary, but still, I'm pretty impressed with her acting. The touches of humor are really good and I LOVED the vibe of the first scene in the movie, I just wished there would have been a bit more of that. If you enjoy meta-movies related to music and you are familiar with the work of CB and St Vincent, it's a very enjoyable movie with lovely imperfections.

I didnt know a thing about st Vincent coming into this but she seems like a down to earth person. I wouldn’t consider this a documentary at all, it was just a fun film 3.5