Acclaimed Psychological Mystery THE CURRENTS – Opens 6/5 in Chicago

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Film By Milagros Mumenthaler

A Hypnotic Existential Mystery

Tracing a Woman's Unravelling

Opens June 5th in Chicago

at the Gene Siskel Film Center

ritic’s Pick! “Superb, sensuously realized…Mumenthaler beautifully portrays Lina’s life adrift.” – Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times

“Fascinating and intractable... 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

“Invites comparison to Virginia Woolf’s formalist yet compassionate

illumination of characters’ inner landscapes.”

—William Repass, Slant

"A transfixing existential mystery... Mumenthaler captures the gaping chasm between how we present and who we are."

—Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter

SYNOPSIS:

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.

Directed and Written by: Milagros Mumenthaler

Starring: Isabel Aimé Gonzalez-Sola, Esteban Bigliardi, Claudia Sánchez, Ernestina Gatti, Jazmín Carballo, Patricia Mouzo, Susana Saulquin

Cinematography by: Gabriel Sandru

Edited by: Julia Straface

Produced by: Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney, Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero