“Can we talk about how weird you’re acting? It’s like you never came back.” Kino Lorber has unveiled the official US trailer for a unique art film titled The Currents, made by the Argentinian filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler as her second feature film so far. This first premiered last year at the Toronto & San Sebastian Film Festivals, before also playing at the Busan, Chicago, New York, AFI Fest, and Vienna Film Festivals and opening in Argentinian cinemas in November. Now it’s arriving in limited US theaters this summer. During a business trip to Geneva, Switzerland, Lina’s impulsive decision to jump into the icy river leads to perilous consequences. Back in Buenos Aires, she tries to bury her secret, but the dark past she left behind resurfaces to threaten her current life and stirs up turmoil. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler, this is a quietly gripping psychological mystery with dreamlike, hallucinatory threads that weave a portrait of a woman on the verge of unraveling. Starring Isabel Aimé Gonzalez-Sola as Lina, Claudia Sánchez, Esteban Bigliardi, Ernestina Gatti, Jazmín Carballo, Patricia Mouzo, and Susana Saulquin. It certainly seems like an intriguing tale of a woman in crisis – rethinking her entire existence. Worth a watch. // Continue Reading ›
