There's yet another interesting set of
twin films in 2024 - two films that are remarkably similar in so many ways even though they're entirely independent, unrelated productions. The first film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in January titled
A Real Pain, written, directed by, and starring Jesse Eisenberg, and it
won the Screenwriting Award at that festival (here's
my full review). The second film is premiering now at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival in February titled
Treasure, directed by German filmmaker
Julia von Heinz, and starring actors
Stephen Fry &
Lena Dunham as father & daughter. Both films involve Americans traveling to Poland, flying into Warsaw, from where they embark upon a "heritage" road trip tour around Poland to find an old home where someone they know once lived in many years ago before fleeing Poland. Both also feature annoying characters, jokes about tourists visiting Poland, and trips to a Jewish graveyard as well as a Nazi concentration camp. They're both so similar it's hard to not talk about both, even though this review is supposed to be about
Treasure, I must compare them as stories about similar themes. //
Continue Reading ›