While visiting Switzerland to accept an award for her work in the fashion industry, Argentinian designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) is seized by the sudden urge to jump off a bridge into an icy river. She survives the plunge and returns to Buenos Aires; she tells no one of the incident, yet a transformation has taken place within her. Left with a paralyzing fear of water, Lina finds it impossible to readjust to her former identity as a wife, mother, and artist. She distances herself from her husband (Esteban Bigliardi) and career, growing increasingly isolated and fragile as she confronts long buried existential questions. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler, The Currents is a quietly gripping psychological mystery with dreamlike, hallucinatory threads that weave a portrait of a woman on the verge of unraveling.
“Mumenthaler beautifully portrays Lina’s life adrift.”
– The New York Times, Critic’s Pick
“A mesmerizing portrait of estrangement.”
– Slant Magazine
“A transfixing existential mystery.”
– The Hollywood Reporter
“A complicated portrait of a woman on the edge of a breakdown, or is it a breakthrough?”
– RogerEbert.com
“Arrestingly styled… an entry in cinema’s rich tradition of deconstructed feminine portraiture that skids ambitiously along a tonal and stylistic spectrum between Hitchcock’s Marnie and Todd Haynes’s Safe.”
– Variety
