Treasure (film)

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Treasure
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Promotional poster
Directed by Julia von Heinz
Written by
  • Julia von Heinz
  • John Quester
Based on Too Many Men
by Lily Brett
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Daniela Knapp
Edited bySandie Bompar
Music by
  • Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz
  • Mary Komasa-Łazarkiewicz
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
Running time
112 minutes
Countries
  • Germany
  • France
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1 million [1]

Treasure is a 2024 tragicomedy film directed by Julia von Heinz. Based on the 1999 novel Too Many Men by Lily Brett, the film stars Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry and Zbigniew Zamachowski. Set in 1990, it tells the story of an American journalist Ruth who travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his trauma and sabotages the trip creating unintentionally funny situations. [2]

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It was selected in the Berlinale Special Gala section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival and was screened on 17 February 2024. [3] The film was released in the United States on June 14, 2024 by Bleecker Street in co-partnership with FilmNation Entertainment. [4]

Cast

Production

Initially titled Iron Box, the film is directed by Julia von Heinz who also wrote the screenplay with John Quester, and is produced by Seven Elephants and Good Thing Going. [5]

The film was shot from 21 February 2023 to 7 May 2023 in Germany at Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and in Poland. 18 of the 39 days of filming took place in central Germany in spring 2023. The main filming location in the region was Halle (Saale). [6]

Release

Treasure had its world premiere on 17 February 2024, as part of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, in Berlin Special Gala. [7] [8] Prior to its world premiere, FilmNation Entertainment and Bleecker Street acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film in January 2024. [9]

The film was released on 14 June 2024 theatrically by Bleecker Street. [10]

The film was selected in the Special Presentations at the 2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival to be held from September 14 to 22, 2024 in Sudbury, Ontario. [11]

Reception

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 41% based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. [12]

Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph rated the film 2/5, and wrote: "Sombre, sluggish and usually on the right side of respectable, Julia von Heinz’s film eventually bottles its task, coming to mollifying conclusions about the 20th century’s starkest horrors." [13]

Leslie Felperin, reviewing the film for The Hollywood Reporter , dubbed it as "Oy gevalt!", and opined: "So muddled and misbegotten it’s hard to perform an evidential postmortem, based strictly on one viewing, of where it all goes wrong." [14]

Wendy Ide reviewing the film at the Berlinale, wrote in ScreenDaily : "Treasure is a curiously inert work, a film that feels as emotionally grey and underlit as its cinematography." [15]

Ben Rolph in AwardsWatch graded the film C, and wrote: "Dunham’s connection to the story cannot save her stilted line delivery, every word feels forced as if just read off the page giving a frustrating lack of authenticity in her performance." [16]

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  1. ↑ "Treasure (2024)". Box Office Mojo . IMDb . Retrieved 28 June 2024. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ Scott Roxborough (20 December 2023). "Berlin Specials Lineup Includes Films From Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried and Jesse Eisenberg". Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 21 December 2023.
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  4. ↑ Tartaglione, Nancy (12 February 2024). "'Treasure': FilmNation & Bleecker Street Set U.S. Release Date For Berlin World Premiere Starring Lena Dunham & Stephen Fry – First-Look Clip". Deadline . Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  5. ↑ "Treasure und "Sieger Sein" feiern Weltpremiere im offiziellen Programm der Berlinale 2024" [“Treasure” and “Sieger Sein” celebrate their world premiere in the official program of the Berlinale 2024]. MDM (in German). 20 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
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  9. ↑ Grobar, Matt (16 January 2024). "FilmNation & Bleecker Street Team For Worldwide Release Of Father-Daughter Drama 'Treasure' Starring Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Treasure: In Theaters June 14". Bleecker Street . Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  11. ↑ "Plenty to savour at this year's edition of Sudbury's International Film Festival". CBC Northern Ontario . 22 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "Treasure (2024, Drama)". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved 12 September 2024.
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  14. ↑ Leslie Felperin (17 February 2024). "'Treasure' Review: Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry Play Daughter and Father in a Misfire of a Holocaust Dramedy". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
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