ERUPCJA – Review by Sarah Ward
Brat summer came and went in 2024 in a wash of lime green and internet memes. Ever since, it has been cinema season for Charli xcx. The British singer and songwriter’s eruption across the big screen is no mere coincidence, acting in no less than seven films (Erupcja, 100 Nights of Hero, Sacrifice, The Moment, I Want Your Sex, The Gallerist and Faces of Death), and also helping to craft two of them as a writer and producer. (And then there’s her Wuthering Heights soundtrack album.) Such cinematic omnipresence sways with a tingle of fate, like forces colliding and conspiring to give xcx her celluloid moment. Erupcja even ponders how clinging onto patterns can feel exactly that way, and feel magical. Unlike in The Moment, she isn’t satirically stepping into her own shoes in this Warsaw-set romantic drama, but where Erupcja’s biggest name is concerned, it still offers commentary about her current career: that this is where xcx is meant to be right now.
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