The Currents

Directed by Milagros Mumenthaler

Release Year: 2026
Running time: 104
Country: Switzerland, Argentina
Language: Spanish
Genres: Drama
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Directed by: Milagros Mumenthaler

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.

 

Reviews

Critic’s Pick! “Superb, sensuously realized…Mumenthaler beautifully portrays Lina’s life adrift.”

Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times
 
“A lush, hypnotic character study…with an uncommon mix of stylistic rigor and feeling, it’s a work of impressive, at times thrilling, assurance from start to finish.”
Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter
 
“A slippery character study and staggering sensory experience…with an elusive, subtle touch, Mumenthaler’s portrait of such a spiral rewards repeat viewings.”
Jordan Raup, The Film Stage
 

"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.”

Guy Lodge, Variety
 
“A complicated portrait of a woman on the edge of a breakdown—or is it a breakthrough?”
Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com
 

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