Review of How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) by Kj P — 24 Jun 2018
If you love HEDWIG, ROCKY HORROR, and NEIL GAIMAN...
A punk sci-fi alien sex comedy might not be for everyone, and that's ok.
Yet for lovers of intelligent sci-fi mixed with experimental cinema, this movie dances like the sex pistols running through Bowie's "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Apparently based on a Neil Gaiman short story, the director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch stamps his punk musical feel onto Neil Gaiman's wonderfully thought out premise, and a cross cultural love story between aliens and punks entertainingly spews forth.
Frankly, I loved it. Elle Fanning's adorable portrayal of naively transgressing from a controlling alien culture into 1977's punk world highlights the nature of punk's original anarchistic push against our own cultural norms.
I think time will prove critics wrong as this definitively un-hollywood take on punk and imagined alien culture clash elevates from the mass of easy critique into the status of cult classic.
This review of How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) was written by Kj P on 24 Jun 2018.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties has generally received mixed reviews.
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