‘Murina’ Film Family friction roils a celebratory gathering
Family friction roils a celebratory gathering beneath the Adriatic sun
in Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s drama, named
best debut feature at Cannes. As the stunning Murina opens, a blue
expanse of water fills the frame like a painterly abstraction. Two
divers drift into view, otherworldly in their masks and flippers and
seemingly united in their spear-fishing mission. Once they’re back in
the sunlight, though, their moray-eel prey dying in a pail between them
on the boat, the man and his 17-year-old daughter are not in harmony.
They might even be mortal enemies. With an exceptional quartet
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