The story of how Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović got Martin Scorsese to help her make her first feature is, she thinks, “a boring one.” Boring might be a bit modest, but it was rather quick. The day after her graduation from film school, she flew to Cannes, shook his hand and came out
“Murina” explores elements of sunshine noir, and hints of a sinister romantic quadrangle. At heart, though, it follows a clear course of self-discovery for its teenaged protagonist.
The arrival of a visitor forces a family's long-simmering tensions into the open in this outstanding debut from the Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic.
The story of how Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović got Martin Scorsese to help her make her first feature is, she thinks, “a boring one.” Boring might be a bit modest, but it was rather quick. The day after her graduation from film school, she flew to Cannes, shook his hand and came out of…