I have no clue about THE CURRENTS. The write up says the film concerns a woman who doesn’t seem to fit into her life after plunging into a river. The reality is that this is a bout a cipher who wanders through her life not saying anything and disconnected. However, she is so disconnected that we never connect.
The problem with the film write up is that infers things that
just aren’t there. She is disconnected from the start when after get an award
she promptly drops it in the garbage and then wanders off before jumping into a
cold river. We then get sequences where she wanders through her life not fully
connected. How unconnected, there is no sense that we need to know anything so
that two sequences where she collapses and is rushed to the hospital are followed by sequences where she drifts
through life. The collapses are never mentioned. There is a sequence with a therapist which is
supposed to clue us in, but it tells us nothing we didn’t know. A late trip to
her mother’s house clues us in that Nina’s mental illness maybe hereditary, but
it goes nowhere because soon after that the film just stops.
I suspect that the press notes may say something, but the
question then becomes why doesn’t the film have any missing information on the
screen.
This film is well made but emotionally and narratively a disaster.
I may think other films at NYFF are worse films, but the truth is those films
have a point of view and passion from a filmmaker who at least could put their
feelings on the screen. I have no idea what the makers of THE CURRENTS were
going for.
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