The venerable but overcrowded “unraveling woman” subgenre gets a shot in the arm with The Currents (Las Corrientes) , a lush, hypnotic character study from Swiss-Argentinian filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler.

Conjuring the troubled inner life of Buenos Aires fashion designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González-Sola) with an uncommon mix of stylistic rigor and feeling, it’s a work of impressive, at times thrilling, assurance from start to finish. A bow at TIFF and a slot in the main slate of the New York Film Festival should help put the movie’s gifted writer-director on the radar of cinephiles, arthouse distributors and programmers alike.

The venerable but overcrowded “unraveling woman” subgenre gets a shot in the arm with The Currents (Las Corrientes) , a lush, hypnotic character study from

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