2015 · comedy · drama
The Treasure (2015)
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu1h 29m2015
Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.
Our read: The Treasure (2015) (2015) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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