The Grand Illusion

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.

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.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Critic’s Pick! “Superb, sensuously realized… Its bravura filmmaking is all in the service of letting us travel alongside Lina as she feels her way to self-understanding.” Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times

“A lush, hypnotic character study… a work of impressive, at times thrilling, assurance from start to finish. 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.” Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter