‘Treasure’ Review: Lena Dunham And Stephen Fry Team Up For A Strangely Flat Father-Daughter Road Movie – Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comWhen 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.
Families have their customary jokes; they squabble over the dinner table; they may be funny characters but, underneath it all, there is a consciousness of pain.
That’s not an easy balance to strike, as a writer or as an actor. 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.
Here are two actors who are equally at home in comedy and drama, two actors who are also accomplished writers and could collaborate on developing their scenes, two actors who are, crucially, both Jewish.
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