It’s the late 1980s. Golden and Silver are mermaids who leave their undersea world and head towards a Warsaw nightclub where, thanks to their exquisite voices and singular physical proportions, they end up with glittering careers as singers and dancers. In the bizarre club environment they try out their first cigarette, their first shot, and their first kiss. They experience love and disenchantment and soon discover that things aren’t as wonderful as they had imagined. This tale of love, coming of age, gathered experience and abandoned illusions is the personal story of both the director and the artists behind the original music (the Wroński sisters), whose childhood is closely associated with life in the dance halls where their parents used to perform. And it’s this glitzy, decadent atmosphere that Agnieszka Smoczyńska has attempted to evoke in her genre-embracing debut. Here, Michalina Olszańska captures Golden’s dusky temperament with the kind of conviction she showed in her sociopathic role in I, Olga Hepnarova (2016), except that, in this case, truck manoeuvres are traded for sanguinary urges.