“Erupcja” Starts Charli XCX’s Acting Career on a High Note

One of the key works of the modern cinema, Roberto Rossellini’s “Voyage to Italy,” from 1954—starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as a British couple whose travels around Naples expose their suppressed conflicts—taught the era’s filmmakers that, with two actors and a car, they could endow an intimate story with emotional grandeur and documentary veracity. The filmmaker Pete Ohs does something startlingly similar with his new film, “Erupcja,” a low-budget romantic melodrama that shares many of the key qualities of Rossellini’s film, including its story, its approach to casting, and its freewheeling shoot.

“Erupcja,” which premièred today at the Toronto International Film Festival, could be called “Voyage to Poland.” It stars Charli XCX, in one of her first movie roles, as a Londoner