“Murina”, beauty moray eel – Liberation

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–In a first polished film punctuated with beautiful underwater scenes, the Croatian Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic stages the disintegration of a family in its island paradise.–

It was enough to see Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic take the stage, extremely pregnant and not very conquering, to guess the kind of character that led her to take about fifteen people to shoot underwater, several meters deep, the most beautiful sequences of Murina. Or to invite the good fairies Martin Scorsese (here executive producer) or Hélène Louvart (director of film photography for Agnès Varda, Larry Clark, Alice Rohrwacher …) to look into the cradle of the Croatian filmmaker’s first feature film, including this one says: “We put all our hearts, our tears, our joy and even our blood into it.”

The film also reveals itself made up of sublime actors, landscapes that are no less sublime and of many phrases, adages and parables, starting with the metaphor conveyed by the moray eel of the title, this unique creature of the animal world in my …

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