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Kids Club: ★★★★★
Jordan Firstman’s amazing directorial debut Kid club it is a real watch. A story that begins deep in the hedonistic queer New York party scene evolves into one about love, connection and responsibility. Firstman, who wrote, directed, and stars in the film, plays Peter, the life of the party. Yes party.
We meet Patrick on holiday, on a night run by himself and his lifelong friend Sophie (Cara Delevingne), and in addition to the most ridiculous drug-related “What do we want?”, “When do we want them?” singing, the vibe is very much like Peter and Sophie made it. They have climbed to the top of the social hierarchy and are organizing one of the best nights of the month.
Some say the party lifestyle is a young man’s game with debauchery, drugs, and deadly come downs, but ten years after our introduction to Peter’s life, we see that he hasn’t changed that much.
This leap of ten years really includes the runaway train that could be life in a party scene. Peter’s gloomy state after attending his own party gave me two-handed fatigue, and there seems to be a grim cyclical repetition to this lifestyle that has no particular end. We hear Sophie say, ‘you don’t have to be upset every time,’ to Peter, and his friend Devon suggests that they do something ‘bloody’ together, rather than just go out and split up, but Peter’s penchant for the party and the cocktail of uppers and downers that comes with it seems to be as active as ever.
