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‘Treasure’ Review: Lena Dunham And Stephen Fry Team Up For A Strangely Flat Father-Daughter Road Movie – Berlin Film Festival
‘Treasure’ review: Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry team up for a strangely flat road movie – Berlin Film Festival
When Australian writer Lily Brett published her novel Too Many Men in 2001, critics marvelled at the light, comic tone she had managed to strike in a novel about the lasting impact of the Holocaust, passed down from one generation to the next. So when Julia Von Heinz came to adapt Too Many Men as a film – now called Treasure – she found an ostensible dream team in Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham, playing camp survivor Edek Rothwax and his wisecracking adult daughter Ruth on a homecoming trip to Poland. Treasure is otherwise a strangely flat experience, the Fry-Dunham dream team barely sparking a laugh between them and the original story’s central theme of trauma passed down within Jewish families never explored in any visceral way, merely illustrated with the pile of Nazi historical literature Ruth carts around in her suitcase and signalled by her obsessive consumption of potato chips.
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