Treasure (12a)
Julia von Heinz, 2024 1h 51mCurrently not screening
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Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry go on the trail of family history in poignant, witty father-daughter drama Treasure.
Adapting Lily Brett’s semi-autobiographical novel Too Many Men, Julia Von Heinz’s follow-up to And Tomorrow the Entire World grapples with the intergenerational legacy of the Holocaust.
1991, after the fall of the Iron Curtain: American journalist Ruth (Dunham) and her bon vivant Dad Edek (Fry), a Holocaust survivor, go on a tour of Poland, including Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz and Łódź. Ruth wants to explore her roots; Edek has a more light-hearted agenda for the trip, and only when they visit his former family home does his attitude begin to change. An offbeat culture clash journey of two New Yorkers through post-socialist Poland, Treasure finds that reconnecting with a painful past does not have to be painful in itself.
“Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham are the double-act you never knew you needed” ★★★★ The Times