Watch an exclusive clip from the new film executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
When director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović ferment with the untried actress Gracija Filipović on the 2017 unretentive filmInto the Blue , something cluck . " It was like hormone and the actual coming - of - age happening in front of my eyes in this lifelike setting that was in difference with this inner nature and internal danger , " Kusijanović enunciate . " There was so much life coming onto celluloid . I felt that ’s a gold mine , ' I want to limn this in a feature article picture , ' so that ’s what I did . I decided to write a feature film for her , specifically . "
The answer isMurina , a spectacular debut feature of speech that opens this week at New York’sMetrographbefore expand to Los Angeles . In the movie , executive director produced byMartin Scorsese , Filipović play Julija , a adolescent who lives on a distant Croatian island with her angry , require father and deferential female parent . She ’s a raw in the piss — Filipović is a professional natator — and scours the sea for eel with her dad , but determine raucous tourists with hushed hungriness from afar . When an old friend of her parent Javier ( Cliff Curtis ) come to visit , she sees a potential drop for a life out from the tyrannous isolation of this otherwise gorgeous locus .
In an exclusive clip , you may see the saltation between Julija and Javier over breakfast . Javier is still deep in love with Julija ’s mom , and Julija is infatuate with Javier in a path that may or may not be sexual . He seduce her with talking of the fancy boarding schoolhouse his kids give ear , and his agreement of love . She ’s dreamy eyed , but it ’s unclear what she most desire : Him ? Or his life ? " There ’s something about foreigner coming into a rural area where nothing much change . They always bring a certain allurement of the world , of the best is yet to amount , " Kusijanović explains . " That type of vigour coming to a new womanhood confused about who she is , where she ’s heading , the relationship with her beginner , the relationship with her mother , who is very snug to her age , is perplexing to such a fictitious character and she does not know what she wants from this relationship . She want everything out of it . "
Kusijanović uprise up in Dubrovnik , but pass summer on an island not unlike the one show on screen , and was thrifty in how she wanted to snap the landscape along with cinematographer Hélène Louvart . " We were very cognizant that when character reference are within this space , they ’re imprisoned , " she says . " That this place is hostile , by nature , physically , to its natural computer architecture . " What results is a film where the White person of the sway and the blue of the water is mistily threatening , the way Julija ’s don is . Through Filipović ’s performance you’re able to feel the direction she itches to get off on your skin . It ’s mesmerizing and a lilliputian bit terrific .
