Julija’s compliant, exhausted mother, Nela (Danica Curcic), desperately looks forward to the few moments when Ante might be in a good mood. But for his family, living with him is more a reign of terror. ![]() His aggression can manifest as boisterousness or passion, and one can see how in small doses Ante might seem charming to outsiders. ![]() The brash, impatient Ante thinks nothing of bellowing orders and pushing his daughter out of the way whenever he thinks she’s doing something wrong. When we first meet Julija (Gracija Filipović), she and her father Ante (Leon Lučev) are out spearfishing morays (“murina”). Among other things, it’s a movie about the lapping of waves on the shore, about the roar of boat engines, about the way the rocks and crags of the Dalmatian coast speak to the uncontainable restlessness of youth. ![]() Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature (which won the Camera d’Or for Best First Film at Cannes last year) plunges us into the mind of a teenage girl struggling to free herself from her domineering father, and it does so by immersing us in the immediate physical world surrounding her. Cliff Curtis and Gracija Filipovic in Murina.Ĭoming-of-age films set at seaside locales are practically their own subgenre by now, but rarely are they as intoxicatingly present as Murina.
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