Corneliu Porumboiu's most optimistic film
Corneliu Porumboiu’s films have plenty in common with one another, from the director’s steady and precise visuals to an obsession with the intersection of history and present tense in Romania. While The Treasure, his fourth feature, certainly shares those attributes, most noticeable is the way the writer/director plays with narrative as if it were a string of taffy. He even makes this predilection explicit in When Evening Falls on Bucharest: the filmmaker at the heart of that piece longs to extend an argument to thirty minutes. Porumboiu brings this tendency – to elongate certain aspects while completely doing away with others – to the adventure genre with The Treasure, his most overtly optimistic work yet: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/the-treasure/
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