‘How To Talk To Girls At Parties’ Trailer: Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning Make Punk A Way Of Life

Led by Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, with a soundtrack featuring artists including Nico Muhly, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Matmos and AC Newman of The New Pornographers, it’s a little bit disappointing that “How To Talk To Girls At Parties” has been a bit lost in the wind since debuting at Cannes. The film is gearing up to roll out internationally as we wait any news of a U.S. release date, and another trailer has landed.

The new film from John Cameron Mitchell brings a short story by Neil Gaiman to the big screen, telling the story of an alien who lands in 1970s London to discover the pleasures of the burgeoning punk scene. Here’s the synopsis:

John Cameron Mitchell, director of the acclaimed films Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus takes us to an exotic and unusual world: suburban London in the late ’70s. Under the spell of the Sex Pistols, every teenager in the country wants to be a punk, including our hopeless hero Enn (Alex Sharp). Crashing local punk queen Boadicea’s party, Enn discovers every boy’s dream – gorgeous foreign exchange students. When he meets the enigmatic Zan (Elle Fanning), it’s love at first sight.

But these teens are, in fact, aliens from outer space, sent to Earth to prepare for a mysterious rite of passage. When their dark secret is revealed, the love-struck Enn must turn to Boadicea (Nicole Kidman) and her followers for help in order to save the girl he loves from certain death. When the punks take on the aliens, neither Enn’s nor Zan’s universe will ever be the same again.

“How To Talk Girls At Parties” will be released in the U.S. via A24.

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