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But for his family, living with him is more a reign of terror.
As played by the veteran Croatian actor Lucev, Ante has nervous, hungry eyes and a predatory grimace.
Ante might consider this pride, but to everyone else, it feels like juvenile boastfulness.
Watching her parents with Javier, Julija glimpses paths not taken and lives left unlived.
Kusijanovic conveys all this through the way her actors move against and look at one another.
Thats filmmaking of the highest order intimate and gripping.
That line could be the governing aesthetic of the film.
The configs ofMurinaare certainly lovely, but Kusijanovic avoids the siren call of the picturesque.
The sea is steel blue, the terrain arid and lunar; the landscape has been stripped of possibility.
(We see almost no other fish.)
The whole place is suffocated of life.
And yet, somehow, the picture itself is wonderfully alive.
