Murina

Kino Lorber | Release Date: July 8, 2022

4.5	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Ratings

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LorfgtJul 25, 2022

Typical low effort pretentious slav misery porn arthouse film. The director is your usual self hating croat **** venting about her daddy issue and portraying Croatia as some hellhole every slavoid is trying to escape. I have to echo what aTypical low effort pretentious slav misery porn arthouse film. The director is your usual self hating croat **** venting about her daddy issue and portraying Croatia as some hellhole every slavoid is trying to escape. I have to echo what a lot of user reviews here and on IMDB have writer. This almost type of fetishisation of Balkan/Eastern European filmmakers have with portraying their country as hell on earth when statistically speaking they’re safer and better to live in than the majority of countries on earth (especially Croatia). It’s like it’s almost a template designed by these hacks to cash in on this pretentious type of way foreigners are used to viewing countries like Croatia .

The story is about some self absorbed brat leeching off her father, whom the film desperately tries to portray as strong willed and rebellious, and yet her stunning and brave act of rebellion is to whore herself to some rich foregin guy in the hopes he will take her away from her father. Because at the end of that day that’s the only thing Eastern Euro slav hoes are capable of doing-whoring themselves to the first foreigner they see and then complain and over exaggerate how horrible their life is in their country, instead actually of doing something worthwhile and making a change. They fetishes themselves and act like special princesses that the whole world wants and yet don’t bring anything else of value to the table besides how much everyone wants to **** them.

To the director of the story-I’m sorry your daddy didn’t give you enough hugs, but please try to get better material. It may impress gullible foreigners who view this type of tripe as high art, but to those of us living here and have seen a dozen of these types of films, it’s extremely boring, predictable and eye rolling.… Expand

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Brent_MarchantSep 8, 2022

Adolescence is a time for finding oneself, especially when it comes to our sense of personal power. That’s rarely easy, but it can be especially difficult for a teenage girl trapped in a household with a chauvinistic father, a condition notAdolescence is a time for finding oneself, especially when it comes to our sense of personal power. That’s rarely easy, but it can be especially difficult for a teenage girl trapped in a household with a chauvinistic father, a condition not uncommon in many traditional Eastern European households. Such is the fate of a quiet but independently minded Croatian adolescent who longs for freedom from under the thumb of her domineering dad and capitulating mother. But the potential for profound change arises when a wealthy old friend of her father pays a visit to their coastal fishing village, one that could transform her life and that of her mother, provided they have the courage to act on it. Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature from Executive Producer Martin Scorsese presents an intense, intimate character study of an individual’s search for empowerment in the face of oppressing odds and confusing circumstances that, like the clandestine behavior of the moray eels she and her father routinely hunt, deceptively conceal much of what’s actually going on. This winner of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera Award for best first feature simmers slowly but builds tension well, engaging viewers handily, despite some repetitive narrative elements and occasional “atmospheric” camera work whose deliberate murkiness goes a little overboard in metaphorically depicting the intended character of the story. A number of films with themes similar to those explored here have emerged from this region in recent years, such as “Hive” (2021) and “God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya” (2019). That’s an indication that there’s a need for the expression of these notions, and, thankfully, filmmakers have successfully risen to the occasion, making the world more aware about conditions for women desperately in need of reform.… Expand

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