Treasure, Berlin Film Festival review: Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham make for a fun if unlikely double act
by Geoffrey Macnab
Feb 17, 2024
2 minutes
, a gentle character-based drama starring and , addresses the Holocaust very differently to other recent films, among them or Bianca Stigter’s equally disturbing archive-based . The film, adapted from Lily Bret’s novel and a world premiere at the Berlin Festival this weekend, uses whimsy and anecdote instead of shock tactics. At times, it plays more like a sitcom. Thankfully, it still provides probing insight into everything from casual antisemitism to the plague of historical forgetfulness.
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