Synopsis
A Bill Gates impersonator’s confession will change everything.
Nathan attempts to help a Bill Gates impersonator reunite with his long-lost love.
Nathan for You: Finding Frances
2017 Directed by Nathan Fielder
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Brendan Geraghty Sam Zuckerman Nathan Fielder Leo Allen Dave Kneebone Tim Heidecker Eric Wareheim Dan McManus Christie Smith Amanda Schulz Natalie Darrah
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Finding Frances
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wonder how it feels to be a filmmaker today knowing this exists and you’ll never reach it’s level of greatness
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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.
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top ten anime betrayals: nathan’s face when bill asks the bartender to turn on fox news
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"I can't believe I'm sitting here with Tommy Peacock: Basketball, band, and track."
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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.
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"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."
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“IM HERE. TO MARRY YOUR WIFE”
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Maci, a hired escort: It's kinda weird having cameras around, right?
Nathan Fielder: We could turn them off if you want.
M: laughs Could we?
NF: Do you want to?
M: Does that defeat the purpose?
NF: What's the purpose?
M: You're filming something. It's kinda the purpose, right?
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NF: We do have this drone. It'd be cool to get a drone shot, maybe.Nathan Fielder's just fucking brilliant TV show has always been built around the similitudes between genuineness and artificiality, a complex system of representations that is often reinforced as heterogeneous and/or binary. The above exchange (the last of the show up to this point) circularizes such a system by having all artificial elements reflect on their…
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“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
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Does my voice sound familiar to you?
A raw weaponization of the fundamental unknowability of other people, paraded through actors, paid company, unfamiliar faces, untrustworthy recounts, ultimately back to who has always been the show’s central question mark. After all, how could they be understood when we so struggle to even approach understanding ourselves, our true motives, our true feelings, our true needs. If people are to us what we need them to be and what small glimpses we can see of their infinity, then there must be a reckoning as to how we are the same to them. All brought to you by one of the best working in any craft today; there’s a reason Nathan for You is…
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Say what you will about the dubious talents or the even more dubious life choices of Bill Heath, when he performs “I’m a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas” the man commands the room like a bonafide goddamn *star*.