German director Julia von Heinz’s Treasure is an adaptation of Too Many Men, Lily Brett’s highly regarded novel about a daughter who travels to Poland with her father, a Holocaust-survivor
, Lily Brett’s highly regarded novel inspired by her relationship with her father, a Holocaust survivor.
German director Julia von Heinz’s film is based on a trip that the pair made to Poland, where Brett hoped to find out more about the wartime horrors that her blithely evasive father had always steered her away from.
His charm, however, is lost on Dunham, whose Ruth comes across as being as glum as the film’s design palette – a dispiriting blend of brown and grey. She’s a woman on a mission so consuming that she’s blind to the insights that present themselves along the way. Both are still mourning Ruth’s mother who’s been dead for only a year, but this doesn’t stop Edek from being open to all possibilities, including a one-night stand with a widowed tourist. Stefan , the driver they hire for the whole trip, is instantly adopted as a friend and confidant and Ruth comes into their hotel bar one night to find her father leading the other guests in a singalong.When it comes to the real reason for the trip, however, he holds back.
They both pull themselves together in time for a happy ending and the elan with which Fry plunges into his role, making the most of the accent, the shabbiness, the shambling and the indomitable geniality of the man does lift the spirits but Dunham is woefully miscast which means that there’s no spark between them.
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