Charli XCX is a woman torn in the first trailer for director Pete Ohs’ (Jethica) relationship drama Erupcja. The film follows Charli’s Bethany on vacation in Warsaw with her nice-enough fiancé Rob (Will Madden) as the couple enjoy the sights before a volcanic eruption strands them in the city due to a plume of volcanic ash spewed into the air by Mt. Etna.
That sets Charli off on a bit of self-exploration and a reunion with her childhood friend Nel (Lena Góra). While Nel seems reluctant at first to re-connect, the two eventually get together, with Bethany revealing that Rob is planning to propose the next day. “With him… the earth doesn’t shake,” Bethany says tentatively in describing Rob to Nel.
As images of the two women partying in clubs unspools, a reluctant Nel laments, “Every time we get together… a volcano erupts.” With a pounding soundtrack propelling the clip, we see Rob calling Bethany wondering were she’s gone off to, with Nel asking what the issue is between the couple as Bethany admits, “he’s really nice… but sometimes nice is boring.”
The film, due in theaters on April 17, was co-produced and co-written by Charli and also stars playwright/screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play, Emily in Paris) and Polish screenwriter/actress Agata Trzebuchowaka (Vacancy, Ida). Erupcja premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall and is just one of several movies Charli XCX has lined up this year.
In addition to starring in the thinly veiled music mockumentary The Moment, out now, she created the soundtrack for director Emerald Fennell’s adaption of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie. It was also announced this week that the Brat singer will play a possessed, violent spirit in Japanese director Takashi Miike’s upcoming untitled slasher film. She will also be seen in Daniel Goldhaber’s remake of the 1978 underground horror classic Faces of Death, as well as Gregg Araki’s erotic comedy thriller I Want Your Sex alongside Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman and Chase Sui Wonders and director Cathy Yan’s dark comedy thriller The Gallerist with Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Zach Galifianakis and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Watch the Erupcja trailer below.
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