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Drama • 2025 • 104 min

The Currents follows Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist who returns from a career high in Switzerland carrying something she cannot name. Back in Buenos Aires, a quiet unraveling pulls buried trauma into her present, straining her domestic life from the inside out. Director Milagros Mumenthaler keeps the story intimate and formally precise, framing maternal anxiety and psychological fracture as personal rather than political. The Neutral label reflects exactly that restraint: a nuclear family exists at the center but is neither idealized nor dismantled on principle. No ideological framing, no social advocacy, no religious dimension. The film is simply a psychological portrait of a woman whose interior life has begun to move against her will.
Esteban Bigliardi • Isabel Aimé González-Sola
The Currents follows Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist who returns from a career high in Switzerland carrying something she cannot name. Back in Buenos Aires, a quiet unraveling pulls buried trauma into her present, straining her domestic life from the inside out. Director Milagros Mumenthaler keeps the story intimate and formally precise, framing maternal anxiety and psychological fracture as personal rather than political. The Neutral label reflects exactly that restraint: a nuclear family exists at the center but is neither idealized nor dismantled on principle. No ideological framing, no social advocacy, no religious dimension. The film is simply a psychological portrait of a woman whose interior life has begun to move against her will.
Esteban Bigliardi • Isabel Aimé González-Sola
Personal psychological unraveling and generational trauma form the core without any ideological framing or systemic critique. The narrative solution centers on individual reckoning within family and self rather than collective or political change.
Argentine casting and formally precise maternal unease converge in an intimate psychological portrait without recasting or explicit ideological framing.
A nuclear family of mother, father, and young daughter forms the domestic backdrop, but the protagonist's trauma-induced phobia of water prevents her from bathing her child or maintaining marital intimacy, leading to isolation and withdrawal from those roles without any narrative endorsement or critique of the structures themselves.
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes register in this elliptical psychodrama of trauma and identity.
No transsexual characters or themes appear. The central figure is a cisgender woman navigating personal trauma and domestic life.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Original screenplay introduces all named characters without reference to any prior canonical or historical figure of opposite gender.
No race swaps occur. All characters are original creations for this screenplay with no prior canonical or historical racial depictions to mismatch.
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