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The Currents

2026

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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews

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RELEASE DATE: May 29, 2026

The Currents

Movie Details & Credits

Kino Lorber | Release Date: May 29, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: 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 paralyzingWhile 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.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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90

The Hollywood Reporter

Jon Frosch

Nov 5, 2025

The Currents never comes off as derivative. The elegance and, especially, empathy with which Mumenthaler captures the gaping chasm between how we present and who we are give the film a voluptuous pull all its own. Read full review

88

Slant Magazine

William Repass

Oct 29, 2025

While The Currents can certainly be read as a portrait of a woman coming apart at the seams, it also offers a more expansive view of mental illness as a sensitivity not wholly pathological, but rather capable of reframing and refreshing the world. Read full review

80

Wall Street Journal

Zachary Barnes

Oct 29, 2025

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.” One daring sequence toward the end offers a vivid panorama beyond this woman’s world. Read full review

80

Variety

Guy Lodge

Nov 5, 2025

This is impressively composed, searching high-art cinema, elevated by its meticulous, silkily textured formal construction Read full review

75

The Film Stage Jourdain Searles

Nov 5, 2025

Mumenthaler doesn’t want to give us the answers––she just wants us to wade through it and find our own way to shore. Read full review

70

The Film Verdict Kevin Jagernauth

Nov 5, 2025

Mumenthaler’s screenplay works best when it lives and breathes in the ambiguities of Lina’s malaise and dissatisfaction, and how she balances it with her responsibilities as an entrepreneur, wife, and devoted mother. Splitting the difference between its more lyrical touches with more straightforward storytelling saps some of the power out of the film. Read full review

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Next Best Picture Dan Bayer

Oct 29, 2025

While well-made, The Currents lacks the spark of originality that could make it truly outstanding Read full review

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