{"id":163077,"date":"2025-12-01T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163077\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:42:15","slug":"kino-lorber-takes-argentine-psychodrama-the-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163077\/","title":{"rendered":"Kino Lorber Takes Argentine Psychodrama &#8216;The Currents&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kino-lorber\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kino-lorber_1\" data-tag=\"kino-lorber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kino Lorber<\/a> has picked up rights for North America for The Currents, a psychological drama from Argentine writer\/director Milagros Mumenthaler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMumenthaler\u2019s third feature had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) this year, screening in the Platform section. The drama follows Lina, an accomplished Argentine artist and designer (played by Isabel Aim\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez Sola), who has a traumatic experience, a near-drowning, while accepting an award for her fashion career in Switzerland. Back home, the incident continues to haunt her, and her life slowly unravels. She develops an extreme aversion to water and spirals into a post-traumatic numbness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter\u2018s Jon Frosch gave The Currents,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-currents-review-milagros-mumenthaler-1236364300\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a rave review<\/a> out of TIFF, calling the film \u201can uncommon mix of stylistic rigor and feeling,\u201d that should \u201chelp put the movie\u2019s gifted writer-director on the radar of cinephiles, arthouse distributors and programmers alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn his review, Frosch notes the film\u2019s most surprising quality \u201cis its generosity, its aversion to cheap shocks, button-pushing or finger-wagging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKino Lorber will release The Currents theatrically in 2026, followed by a multiplatform bow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to bring Milagros Mumenthaler\u2019s assured third feature The Currents to North American audiences,\u201d said Karoliina Dwyer, vp of acquisitions at Kino Lorber, who negotiated the deal with Luxbox Head of Sales Jennyfer Gautier. \u201c[It\u2019s] a fascinating, tense character study with stylistic nods to Hitchcock, the film is deliberately paced and nuanced, subtly exploring themes of fear, shame, and trauma. The combined power of Mumenthaler\u2019s exceptional filmmaking and Isabel Aim\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez Sola\u2019s impeccable performance is cinema we are proud to champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Currents is an Alina Film, Ruda Cine production. The film is written and directed by Milagros Mumenthaler and produced by Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney, Violeta Bava, Rosa Mart\u00ednez Rivero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kino Lorber has picked up rights for North America for The Currents, a psychological drama from Argentine writer\/director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,1019,83875,409,111,139,69,107019],"class_list":["post-163077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-kino-lorber","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-toronto-film-festival-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}