Perhaps the only film this year that I'll rate 3 stars and still like.

I went across the city to queue up for the sole showing of this film in an out of the way art house cinema to witness a train wreck... and _Alien Crystal Palace_ didn't disappoint.

Nothing about this film was even remotely within screaming distance of 'good'. The acting was as wooden and shoddy as the sets, the lighting was as off as the dubbing, the directing was as infantile and inane as the story... The only area I found disappointing were the original songs by Serge Gainsbourg impersonator Nicolas Ker because they weren't as awful or as surreal as his appearance in this film he co-wrote, and I was hoping for a perfect disaster.

You must see this film and if you must see it you must see it in a packed cinema because the number of people laughing at this film while the art crowd shush those of us in joyous tears and the hesitant applause that rises up like bile in a belch at the end of the film is a cinematic experience you're not going to be able to gleefully suffer through many times in your movie going career.