Set in London during the 1970s, in which a teenage punk falls in love with a visitor from another planet.
An energetic but erratic film that straddles about a dozen genres at once, none of them that successfully. One for those who like oodles of odd.
Whatever its longueurs and excesses, this is both one of the oddest and most original films that will hit British cinemas this year.
Unfortunately, the final act lets the film down drastically, as this culture-clash romance misplaces its mojo. It was clearly a lot more fun to make than it is to watch.
At best a big screen version of a teenage boy’s fantasy, at worst, a misogynistic bore.
An endearingly silly and outré coming-of-age film.
Elle Fanning and Neil Gaiman on why this alien teenage romance is set in Seventies punk Croydon
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