Synopsis
A Bill Gates impersonator’s confession will change everything.
Nathan attempts to help a Bill Gates impersonator reunite with his long-lost love.
2017 Directed by Nathan Fielder
Nathan attempts to help a Bill Gates impersonator reunite with his long-lost love.
Brendan Geraghty Sam Zuckerman Nathan Fielder Leo Allen Dave Kneebone Tim Heidecker Eric Wareheim Dan McManus Christie Smith Amanda Schulz Natalie Darrah
Finding Frances
wonder how it feels to be a filmmaker today knowing this exists and you’ll never reach it’s level of greatness
The scene of Bill on the phone in the car at the end is one of the most devastating and suddenly humanizing moments I’ve ever seen committed to tape. It feels like the moment near the end of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles where you’re forced to reframe a goofball as a person, but you’re watching him realize the inevitable thing you’ve known the entire time. And it’s real. You look in Bill’s eyes and watch him catch up to over 50 years of a pipe dream in real-time. Such an indescribable emotion.
EDIT: Oh my god, and the way he bounces back. From “you don’t remember my voice?” with Frances to him pulling the same shit with June– and her…
top ten anime betrayals: nathan’s face when bill asks the bartender to turn on fox news
Nathan Fielder is the new Abbas Kiarostami. A masterwork of reflexivity, questioning the lengths of performance vs persona, and how the manipulative nature of it effects the people and their surroundings it's played upon.
Who would have thought the most poignant moment of the year would be in the same episode as a Bill Gates impersonator singing "ding dong Daddy" and spending a good chunk of Comedy Central's budget on escorts.
"I can't believe I'm sitting here with Tommy Peacock: Basketball, band, and track."
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Directors will spend entire careers trying to make something as good as this and never come close
Edit: damn I did not know I said the same shit as Karsten word for word😭😭😭
A preliminary but confident rating as I think that this might be a valid addition to my two hundred 5/5 rated films (ever), out of the 10,000 or so that I've seen. A deeply psychologically complex masterwork of pure cinema & introspective emotion from the king of contemporary comedy. Hands down one of the very best movies of the year.
"The main thing about age progression is the gravity. What makes people age is gravity. If there were no gravity — for instance, if we all lived in outer space, as we will one day — your face would never change. You'd always look like how you look right now."
“maybe she couldn’t figure out me.”
“can you figure out you?”
*dramatic music*
one part touching documentary on the escort industry
one part teaching an old man whose channel of choice is Fox News not to be an egotistical misogynist
one part reflection on the subjectivity of time and the fallibility of memory
one part me wondering if Nathan Fielder is okay