Year: 2017
Country: UK, USA
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Ruth Wilson
Genre: comedy, romance, sci-fi, musical
Runtime: 110 min.
Age: 16+
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. Hearing the local punk Queen Boadicea is throwing a party, Enn crashes the fun and discovers every horny boy's dream; gorgeous foreign exchange students. When he meets the enigmatic Zan, it's lust at first sight. But these girls have come a lot further than America. They are, in fact, aliens from another galaxy, sent to Earth to prepare for a mysterious rite of passage. When the dark secret behind the rite is revealed, our galaxy-crossed lover Enn must turn to Boadicea and her punk followers for help in order to save the alien he loves from certain death.
Awards & Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival – participation
BIFA Award Nomination – Best Costumes