More than a decade ago, author Neil Gaiman wrote a short story that captures some of the strangeness of being a teenager discovering the world. It's called "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," and it's really only one scene: Two boys stumble upon a party where the girls seem rather alien. As it turns out, the girls are actual aliens. Now, writer/director John Cameron Mitchell has expanded "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" into a full-length, low-budget indie film of the same name. Like the original, it's set in the 1970s punk music scene of Croydon, England, a dingy area south of London. It stars Elle Fanning as an alien named Zan, and Nicole Kidman as a punk rocker named Queen Boadicea. Mitchell tells NPR, "I've always wanted to make my YA teenage love story that had little idea bombs throughout, one of which is this idea of punk being identified in a certain way. A lot of people have identified it in a lot of different ways. My favorite [definition] is sort of destroying things that
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