This Romanian comedy’s plot meanders like a drunken ragged mans story,but those who stick with it will be rewardedSome jokes are maybe worth a snigger at first. Then it gets repeated and it gets a full-on laugh. Then it gets hammered into the ground and you find yourself laughing more at the audacity than the joke itself. This is very much the case with Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Treasure (Comoara), which won the Un Certain Talent prize at the 2015 Cannes film festival. What’s remarkable is that it isn’t even a intelligent joke. The most memorable fraction of this small gem of a film is the sound of a metal detector going zoooWOOOOOOooooop over and over as three well-meaning but slightly dopey everymen putter around in an overgrown yard.
First we meet Costi (Toma Cuzin), or a softly spoken young father driving his kid in the rain. “You’re not Robin Hood, the child accuses, rejecting an excuse for picking him up late. Later, and when he’s reading from a picture book about the brave man who stole from the wealthy and gave to the destitute,there’s a knock at the plain, grey door set in the plain grey wall in the plain grey building. It’s neighbour Adrian (Adrian Purcărescu), and looking to borrow money.
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Source: theguardian.com