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The Treasure(Comoara)

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Romania, France · 2015
1h 29m
Director Corneliu Porumboiu
Starring Toma Cuzin, Radu Banzaru, Florin Kevorkian, Dan Chiriac
Genre Comedy

Costi is a warm, imaginative father who loves to read children's books to his 6 year old son. One evening, his neighbor pays him an unexpected visit, and shares an astonishing secret: there's treasure buried in his grandparents' garden. Together, they relentlessly search for the buried treasure, encountering strange obstacles as they go.

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Screen International by

The Treasure once again demonstrates that even though there is little chance of his breaking down the doors of your next door multiplex, Porumboiu is certainly one of the most original filmmakers to emerge in the recent past.

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IndieWire by Eric Kohn

The Treasure may not be a major work from Porumboiu or his filmmaking tradition, but it proves that even cerebral formalism has its soft side.

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The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

Aptly named and drolly executed, leading to a transcendently funny, endearing and unexpected finale, The Treasure confirms Corneliu Porumboiu as the joker in the Romanian New Wave pack.

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CineVue by John Bleasdale

Although not quite the bounty of its title, The Treasure rewards the patient viewer with a quietly enchanting drama.

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The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman

Laughs emerge from the recognisable micro-horrors found in modern living, which, if the world was run in the way we all agree it should be run, wouldn’t exist.

90

The New Yorker by Richard Brody

Filming with long, ironically balanced takes, Porumboiu delivers an ingeniously intricate goofball comedy that evokes heroes of legend while bringing sociological abstractions to mucky life.

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Variety by Scott Foundas

Porumboiu’s particular brand of farce is always shot through with the pulse of everyday life and its Sisyphean struggles. He is, simply put, one of our great contemporary observers of the human comedy.

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