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The Currents

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While accepting an award for her fashion career in Switzerland, accomplished Argentine artist and designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) is seized by the urge to plunge herself into an icy winter lake without warning. Returning to Buenos Aires after surviving the fall, Lina decides to tell no one of the incident. Left with a paralyzing fear of water and a growing sense of isolation, she finds it impossible to readjust to her former life as a wife, mother, and artist, distancing herself from her husband (Esteban Bigliardi) and once thriving career. Something in her has shifted -- quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.

Cast & Crew

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Milagros Mumenthaler

Director

Isabel Aimé Gonzalez Sola

Actor

Esteban Bigliardi

Actor

Claudia Sánchez

Actor

Ernestina Gatti

Actor

Jazmín Carballo

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Critics Reviews

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Zachary Barnes Wall Street Journal Oct 16
Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.” Go to Full Review Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter Oct 8
The elegance and, especially, empathy with which Mumenthaler captures the gaping chasm between how we present and who we are gives the film a voluptuous pull all its own. Go to Full Review Guy Lodge Variety Sep 26
Not all of Mumenthaler’s sideways turns yield satisfying discoveries... But this is impressively composed, searching high-art cinema, elevated by its meticulous, silkily textured formal construction. Go to Full Review Olivia Popp Cineuropa Jan 17
It is the director’s dedication to emphasising, in an unexpected way, how generational trauma manifests itself that ultimately emerges as The Currents’ strongest thematic throughline. Go to Full Review Alex Heeney Seventh Row Nov 25
[The Currents] is a dreamy glimpse into the psyche of a woman...full of psychologically rich spaces: dark corridors, billowing curtains, and, of course, currents — the watery [and] the emotional ones. Go to Full Review Rania Richardson Film-Forward.com Nov 16
3/4
A woman’s plunge off a pedestrian bridge into the currents of the Rhône sets off a phobia of water in THE CURRENTS, an elegant portrait from Argentine writer/director Milagros Mumenthaler. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis While accepting an award for her fashion career in Switzerland, accomplished Argentine artist and designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) is seized by the urge to plunge herself into an icy winter lake without warning. Returning to Buenos Aires after surviving the fall, Lina decides to tell no one of the incident. Left with a paralyzing fear of water and a growing sense of isolation, she finds it impossible to readjust to her former life as a wife, mother, and artist, distancing herself from her husband (Esteban Bigliardi) and once thriving career. Something in her has shifted -- quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.
Director
Milagros Mumenthaler
Producer
Eugenia Mumenthaler, Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero, David Epiney
Screenwriter
Milagros Mumenthaler
Distributor
Kino Lorber
Production Co
Alina Film, Ruda Cine, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
May 29, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 14, 2026
Runtime
1h 44m