Erupcja (2026)

Movie · 2026 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 11m · NR · English

Curator score: 5.1/10 (15.1K ratings)

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Overview

A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany and her boyfriend, Rob, in Warsaw, Poland. Taking the explosive event as a sign to ditch her baggage, Bethany reunites with her childhood friend, Nel, to traipse through lofts, clubs, and back alleys—all while becoming entangled in an emotional web that challenges her sense of self.

Ratings

Director

Pete Ohs

Production

Forever Holiday, Spartan Media Acquisitions, bb²

Cast

Charli xcx, Lena Góra, Will Madden, Jeremy O. Harris, Agata Trzebuchowska, Maja Michnacka, Jan Lubaczewski, Jacek Zubiel, Marcin Malisz, Anton Kolbasko, Aleksander Lipski-Reinstein, Jakub Galecki, Mirra Prudowska, Grzegorz Pluciennik, Julia Swiech, Bartlomiej Palubicki, Julian Sanchez, Zofia Chlebowska, Daniel Rasielewski

Curator Review

Verdict

A breezy, improvisational relationship drift with a strong sense of place and a playful, loose-limbed energy. It sounds most rewarding as a vibe piece: a spontaneous city-night hangout movie that turns romantic uncertainty into a small, funny emotional detour. If you want a tightly plotted drama, it may feel underbuilt; if you like scrappy, character-led experiments, it should land.

Best for

  • fans of indie relationship comedies
  • viewers who enjoy improvisational, lightly scripted films
  • people drawn to queer-adjacent emotional triangles and self-reinvention stories
  • audiences interested in city-as-character movies
  • fans of short, atmospheric festival films

Skip if

  • you need a conventional three-act plot
  • you dislike loose, semi-improvised storytelling
  • you want high-stakes drama or big emotional payoffs
  • you prefer polished studio comedies over scrappy indie textures

Overview

Erupcja plays like a postcard written in real time: a romantic getaway derailed by disaster, then rerouted into a wandering night of clubs, lofts, and backstreets in Warsaw. The appeal is less in plot mechanics than in mood, chemistry, and the feeling that everyone involved is making the movie as they go, which gives it a pleasantly unstable, lived-in pulse.

Worth noting

That looseness is also the film’s main limitation. It seems designed to drift, not build, so the emotional turns will likely feel slight to viewers who want cleaner structure or deeper dramatic escalation. But for an audience tuned to spontaneous indie energy, it offers a charming mix of flirtation, identity wobble, and urban nocturne texture.

Bottom line

What stands out most is the sense of place and the way the eruption functions as both literal disruption and emotional permission slip. It sounds like a small film with a big appetite for atmosphere, and that can be enough when the cast chemistry is working and the city is doing half the storytelling.

Top Letterboxd reviews

itscharlibb (5★) · 4445 likes

in the car back from the tiff premiere of our movie! had to 5 star this obvz. congratulations pete, we love you!

itscharlibb · 3656 likes

rewatching erupcja to remind me of the time we had together in poland while making this film. it’s our little poem to warsaw, to the joy of making things, to being spontaneous and to just embracing an energy and going with it. so much heart and soul was poured into this by everyone involved: the crew made up of just a handful people, the cast and of course pete ohs, our director, cinematographer, co writer, editor extraordinaire (and a million… more rewatching erupcja to remind me of the time we had together in poland while making this film. it’s our little poem to warsaw, to the joy of making things, to being spontaneous and to just embracing an energy and going with it. so much heart and soul was poured into this by everyone involved: the crew made up of just a handful people, the cast and of course pete ohs, our director, cinematographer, co writer, editor extraordinaire (and a million… more

Stefan (3★) · 1252 likes

In which Charli XCX abandons her bald bf to go party with her lesbian soulmate. George Daniel shaking.

code (4★) · 852 likes

Charli feels so natural in a character so unlike herself (Bethany doesn’t touch a single cigarette the entire movie while everyone around her smoked)

jesscorfield · 730 likes

This is what she was doing when she should’ve been shipping out the le cruset sets

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Topics

indie drama, romantic comedy, queer subtext, coming-of-age-adjacent, improvised dialogue, nightlife, urban wanderings, festival film, lo-fi production, emotional drift

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