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How to Talk to Girls at Parties

2017

John Cameron Mitchell

Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson ...

5.5

1,594

Comedy. Romance. Fantasy Enn (Alex Sharp) is a shy suburban London teenager in 1977, sneaking out with his best friends to after-hours punk parties. One night they stumble upon a bizarre gathering of sexy teenagers who seem like they are from another planet. In fact, they are from another planet, visiting Earth to complete a mysterious rite of passage. That doesn’t stop Enn from falling madly in love with Zan (Elle Fanning), a beautiful and rebellious alien ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[A] dud (...) Utterly inexpressive (...) The dialogue in 'How to Talk to Girls' is a stray series of limp noodles. Scenes meander, sit there, fizzle out."	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"There's too little narrative cohesion or persuasive subtext to make this much more than a low-budget folly that's outre without always being terribly interesting."	NEG
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"What an extravagantly muddled, borderline incontinent film this is. You might call it genre-hopping, except that this would imply some degree of intent and control (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"With next to no plot up his sleeve, Mitchell falls back (...) on an awful lot of petulant screaming (...) Identifying the point is assuming it ever had one (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] regularly hints at shrewd ideas lurking beneath its flamboyant surface. It doesn’t land all of them, but Mitchell and co-screenwriter Phillips Goslett deserve credit for trying to make such an absurd high concept work as well as it does."	NEU
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Without the script’s deft control of the tale of rebellion and romance at the film’s heart, these would be no more than enjoyable sideshows (...) But work it does: it’s all a bit mad, but ultimately rather moving."	POS

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