St. Vincent on Playing a Satirical Version of Herself in ‘The Nowhere Inn’: ‘The Purpose Isn’t Necessarily to Endear’

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St. Vincent on Playing a Satirical Version of Herself in ‘The Nowhere Inn’: ‘The Purpose Isn’t Necessarily to Endear’
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There haven’t been a lot of sharp rock ‘n’ roll satires in recent years, with “This Is Spinal Tap” perhaps having set the bar too high for future contenders to trisk following in its platform boots…

in a previous interview about the film. The source of the horror, such as it is? No less a thing to be parodied and/or serious bogeyman than celebrity narcissism itself.

He’s right: It is — maybe as funny a rock film as we’ve had since the days of rock Stonehenge. But if there’s a reluctance among the movie’s principals to actually call it a comedy, that may have to do with not wanting to mislead potential viewers about just how dryly straight-faced and ultimately dark it gets. If it’s possible for a film to land somewhere between Rob Reiner and “Inland Empire,” this may be that movie.

It’s easy to imagine one audience where maybe people are rollicking with laughter, and then maybe another audience where people are very quiet, not knowing what to do with the psychological thriller places it goes. But then there’s also the that if you’re watching a film about a musician, commissioned by that musician, then they have final cut. They are showing you what they want you to see. And not that that’s nefarious, but it is shaped and it is through their own lens, and it is from their point of view, in large part. So we thought, in a funny way, it actually would be more authentic to script something than to try to make something quote-unquote “real.

There are certain scenes where your character is interacting with people that seem like they had to have come out of real life. Like the opening scene, in which your chauffeur asks to know who you are, and even though you’re being humble and saying “I’m not for everybody,” he’s really insistent on telling you, “No, I drive aYeah, of course.

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