Great Britain, 1977. The celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee are in full swing, the punk anti-establishment resistance is reaching its peak, and, somewhere amid all this social mayhem, we find Enn, a teenage schoolboy with two objectives: to get a band together and find a girlfriend. The second of these might be within his reach when he crashes a very peculiar party and meets Zan, a naïve creature who regards punk as being “from another colony”. This misunderstanding is only the first indication that the young lovers hail from different planets... John Cameron Mitchell, who was previously fêted for his debut, the unbridled musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, gets back in the groove in his current film How to Talk to Girls at Parties. In an intergalactic fusion of romcom and musical based on the short story by Neil Gaiman, the celestially exquisite Elle Fanning gives a superb performance, as does Nicole Kidman in the role of a punk guru, for whom no expletive is too obscene.