There's a lot about emotional rigidity and teenage craving and the semi-official sexiness of swimming costumes on this assured directorial debut from Croatian film-maker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, although I questioned about some fantastically shot visible cliches.
Julija (Gracija Filipovic) is the teenage daughter of Ante (Leon Lucev), an aggressively insecure man whom she has to assist, diving underwater with him whereas he makes a residing on the rocky Adriatic shoreline spear-fishing moray eels (the “murina” of the title). She is fairly near her mum Nela (Danica Curcic) however in any other case unhappily proud and self-contained. Her father is jittery with pleasure as a result of his outdated buddy Javi (Cliff Curtis) is coming to go to: a super-rich alpha male who could also be desirous about shopping for a few of Ante’s land to show into a vacation resort. It's one thing of an open secret that Javi was as soon as in love with Nela and could also be nonetheless, and he's additionally a lot taken with Julija’s younger magnificence.
Ante realises at some aware degree that adroitly preserving these emotions alive may assist shut the deal, nevertheless it’s a harmful sport, and his personal fragile patriarchal manhood is at stake. As for Javi, does he fairly realise that the land Ante is attempting to promote him is on the island of Kornat, which locals think about blighted by the real-life tragedy of 2007 when 12 firefighters misplaced their lives there attempting to place out a blaze?
All that is acted with smouldering depth and authenticity, significantly by Filipovic, though it’s attainable to surprise if there's something surprising to come back within the third act, or if we are able to roughly guess the place it’s all heading. And likewise … dreamy-hallucinatory underwater sequences within the films have gotten over-familiar. At any charge, there are some very persuasive performances, and beautiful cinematography by Hélène Louvart.
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