The first trailer for the film adaptation of How to Talk to Girls at Parties has just arrived, and it plays up the alienation. But the story is clearly much more involved, and the protagonist, Enn (Alex Sharp) has a lot more agency and personality than his short-story counterpart. Elle Fanning stars as Zan, the girl he meets at an eerie party, and Nicole Kidman plays Queen Boadicea, the leader of Zan’s faction. The punk-music elements in the short story are just set dressing, a few paragraphs about the background music. But co-writer and director John Cameron Mitchell has clearly turned them into an ethos and an organizing principle that suffuses every aspect of the design and apparently the story. As he did with his film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, he’s created something that’s as much about a music scene and what it means to its fandom as it is about the characters or the story.
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