Whether viewers will be swayed by such patness is certainly an open question, but Sweat does manage to introduce a few intriguing discomforts, before it rushes to blot them away.

Magnus von Horn directs his Swedish-Polish film with empathy, never letting us judge Sylwia (played with ferocious acuity by Magdalena Kolesnik) and her burning desire for the spotlight.

Really well-done, a propulsive and neon feeling to it, well worth checking out and I'd love to see it in cinemas.

Sylwia’s thirst for sincerity, in spite of everything, is the main plot driver in von Horn’s somewhat simplistic, but packed with adrenaline one-hander (...) For the second time in his career, [Magnus von Horn] stockpiled several Golden Lions in Gdynia.