"Immaculately subtle and fiendishly clever." Grasshopper Film has revealed the first official US trailer for a Romanian film titled Întregalde, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival last year. It played by in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar and picked up some great reviews at the fest, before hitting the Toronto, New York, and Vienna Film Festivals in the fall. A group on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members, everything seems to be going well for Maria and Dan. But soon after they stumble upon a disoriented local and try to help him, things go wrong... Starring Maria Popistasu, Ilona Brezoianu, Alex Bogdan, Luca Sabin, and Toma Cuzin. This is a strange trailer for the film, opening with the setup then jumping right into this scene where everything goes awry when the car gets stuck.
- 2/21/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Drolly funny and rigorously executed, Corneliu Porumboui’s The Treasure offers a fine example of the conceptual boldness that characterizes much of New Wave Romanian cinema. To anyone watching the film’s early scenes, “boldness” may seem like the very last word to use: Stylistically, most of The Treasure is characterized by a dry functionality that speaks to the bureaucratic, financial, legalistic goings-on in the film. But that’s kind of the point. And it’s all going somewhere, trust me.When we first see our hero, Costi (Toma Cuzin), he’s late to pick up his young son from school; he tells the boy that he wasn’t late but just hiding, like Robin Hood, their favorite bedtime story. That night — not coincidentally, as he’s reading Robin Hood to the boy — Costi’s upstairs neighbor Adrian (Adrian Purcarescu) visits and asks for an 800 euro loan. A sad sack...
- 1/9/2016
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
The Treasure has been praised by festival audiences and critics alike, but I’m still trying to figure out why. Arriving from the politically ravaged land of Romania, this dreary comedy tells the story of two men who search for riches to fight off building debts and feelings of mediocrity. We’re given a “jovial” taste of the oppression these European citizens feel on a daily basis, yet calling Corneliu Porumboiu’s film a comedy couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Performances are dull, Tudor Mircea’s cinematography lacks energy, and the entire production comes across like a dry, flaky wafer that’s almost a chore to digest. While this all plays into Porumboiu’s characterization of modern-day Romania, it just doesn’t translate into an enjoyable, or intriguing buddy “comedy” – with “comedy” being an extremely loose descriptor.
Toma Cuzin stars as Costi, a middle class citizen dealing with...
Performances are dull, Tudor Mircea’s cinematography lacks energy, and the entire production comes across like a dry, flaky wafer that’s almost a chore to digest. While this all plays into Porumboiu’s characterization of modern-day Romania, it just doesn’t translate into an enjoyable, or intriguing buddy “comedy” – with “comedy” being an extremely loose descriptor.
Toma Cuzin stars as Costi, a middle class citizen dealing with...
- 1/8/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
The Treasure Movie Trailer. Corneliu Porumboiu‘s The Treasure (2015) movie trailer stars Toma Cuzin, Adrian Purcarescu and Corneliu Cozmei. The Treasure‘s plot synopsis: “Costi leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favourite is Robin Hood. Costi sees himself as the hero – righter of wrongs and defender of […]...
- 12/15/2015
- by Marco Margaritoff
- Film-Book
"There's something big here." IFC Films has debuted the new official Us trailer for Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu's latest feature The Treasure. Porumboiu is most well known for his award-winning films 12:08 East of Bucharest and Police, Adjective, and this time takes on small time adventure when a peaceful man becomes obsessed with treasure buried in his garden. The film stars Toma Cuzin, Adrian Purcarescu, and Corneliu Cozmei. It premiered Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and won the "A Certain Talent Prize" for the masterful narration. It seems to have a unique dead pan vibe with some wacky things going on in this man's pursuit for treasure, which seems to be more about his own happiness. Here's the official Us trailer for Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure, on YouTube (via The Film Stage): Costi (33) leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories,...
- 12/11/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
While his films may not get the widest of distribution here in the United States, Corneliu Porumboiu is a key figure in the Romanian New Wave with films like When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, Police, Adjective, and 12:08 East of Bucharest. His latest feature, The Treasure, premiered at Cannes earlier this year and thankfully we don’t have to wait as long to see it as some of his other films. Ahead of a January release, the first trailer has now arrived, giving us a glimpse at the story which finds a father on a search for loot in his backyard.
We said in our review, “Though regularly grouped with the directors that comprise the Romanian New Wave, Corneliu Porumboiu’s brand of social realism is all his own. Dispensing with the shaky cam so popular amongst his peers, his fictional features capture the world through contemplative long takes,...
We said in our review, “Though regularly grouped with the directors that comprise the Romanian New Wave, Corneliu Porumboiu’s brand of social realism is all his own. Dispensing with the shaky cam so popular amongst his peers, his fictional features capture the world through contemplative long takes,...
- 12/11/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
This Romanian comedy’s plot meanders like a drunken old man’s story, but those who stick with it will be rewarded
Some 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 clever joke. The most memorable part 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), a softly spoken young father driving his kid in the rain.
Some 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 clever joke. The most memorable part 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), a softly spoken young father driving his kid in the rain.
- 10/5/2015
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
Although Romanian New Wave director Corneliu Porumbiou's The Treasure showed late in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, its winning simplicity and droll humor made it stand out as a festival favorite. As slim, funny and diagrammed as a Hong Sang-soo comedy—something the director's last fiction feature, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, also strongly resembled—this little moral tale begins with that most heartbreaking of quotidian details of parenting: a child upset at his parent. Later, while Costi (Toma Cuzin) is reading his boy Robin Hood, Adrian (Adrian Purcarescu), a neighbor he doesn't really know, stops to ask to borrow money. When the neighbor finds out Costi isn't so well off himself—everyone has debts, unforgiving mortgages—Adrian proposes something quite different: the Costi puts up the money to rent a metal detector so that they can search for treasure Adrian's grandfather hinted...
- 6/23/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
The festival stretches its arms today and breaths a big sigh of relief: the Cannes Marché is ending, the business types fleeing the Palais des Festivals, the Croisette and Cannes, far away from any such shuddered utterances as "Apichatpong," "Hou," or "Porumboiu." God forbid! The festival thus empties out a bit, making queues shorter, the time one can sleep in the morning precious minutes longer. The suits are replaced by regular tourists, from cruises or from the country, and the town loses a bit of its charged, schizophrenic character with this exchange, because, let's admit, the commotion money brings with it is usually a spectacle to behold. And without the money, what is Cannes?Romanian New Wave director Corneliu Porumbiou asks something related in The Treasure, one of the festival's best and a real pleasure in these last dwindling days. As slim, funny and diagrammed as a Hong Sang-soo comedy...
- 5/23/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Aferim!
Director: Radu Jude // Writers: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu
Romanian director Radu Jude’s 2012 sophomore film, Everybody in Our Family was a tense, hysterical familial drama that immediately confirmed his place as one of the country’s most promising new voices. His latest is an ambitious period piece, titled Aferim! (which means, Bravo!) and tackles the subject of Gypsy slavery in the 19th century. The film is headlined by Teodor Corban, a performer who has appeared in some of Romania’s most noted titled, including 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, 12:08 East of Bucharest, and Child’s Pose. We’ve been highly anticipating Jude’s next feature, which apparently filmed last summer.
Cast: Teodor Corban, Toma Cuzin, Mihaela Surbu
Producers: HiFilm’ Productions’ Ada Solomon, Klas Film, EndorFilm.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: While The Happiest Girl in the World and Everybody in Our Family landed in Berlin, based on...
Director: Radu Jude // Writers: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu
Romanian director Radu Jude’s 2012 sophomore film, Everybody in Our Family was a tense, hysterical familial drama that immediately confirmed his place as one of the country’s most promising new voices. His latest is an ambitious period piece, titled Aferim! (which means, Bravo!) and tackles the subject of Gypsy slavery in the 19th century. The film is headlined by Teodor Corban, a performer who has appeared in some of Romania’s most noted titled, including 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, 12:08 East of Bucharest, and Child’s Pose. We’ve been highly anticipating Jude’s next feature, which apparently filmed last summer.
Cast: Teodor Corban, Toma Cuzin, Mihaela Surbu
Producers: HiFilm’ Productions’ Ada Solomon, Klas Film, EndorFilm.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: While The Happiest Girl in the World and Everybody in Our Family landed in Berlin, based on...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Treasure
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu // Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu
One of the frontrunners of the Romanian New Wave thanks to his 2006 debut 12:08 East of Bucharest, Porumboiu has remained one of the most consistent members of the wave with successful followup films Police, Adjective (2011) and When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013). Already snapped up by foreign sales co. Wild Bunch, this sounds like a bit of a departure so far, vaguely described as a film about two men and their various misadventures on a quest for treasure. With films that tend to revolve around eloquent, highly intelligent conversation, Porumboiu is well worthy of a slot on any lists of anticipation.
Cast: Toma Cuzin
Producers: 42km Film’s Corneliu Porumboiu, Les Films du Worso, Rouge International, Marcela Ursu (When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: Filmed in October over a period of about a month,...
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu // Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu
One of the frontrunners of the Romanian New Wave thanks to his 2006 debut 12:08 East of Bucharest, Porumboiu has remained one of the most consistent members of the wave with successful followup films Police, Adjective (2011) and When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013). Already snapped up by foreign sales co. Wild Bunch, this sounds like a bit of a departure so far, vaguely described as a film about two men and their various misadventures on a quest for treasure. With films that tend to revolve around eloquent, highly intelligent conversation, Porumboiu is well worthy of a slot on any lists of anticipation.
Cast: Toma Cuzin
Producers: 42km Film’s Corneliu Porumboiu, Les Films du Worso, Rouge International, Marcela Ursu (When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: Filmed in October over a period of about a month,...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Yes, producers Roy Lee (“The Lego Movie”) and Jill Messick (“Hot Rod," “Mean Girls”) are bringing "Minecraft" to the big screen, and it looks like they've found their director. Following the dramedy flop "This Is Where I Leave You," Shawn Levy is in talks to develop and direct the video game adaptation. No word yet on who will have the unlucky challenge of trying to write a script based on this. [Deadline] In more exciting news, Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu ("When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism," "12:08 East Of Bucharest," "Police, Adjective") has started shooting his next film, "The Treasure." Toma Cuzin, and non-professional actors Adrian Purcărescu and Corneliu Cozmei lead the cast in the story that "follows two men as they face a series of misadventures in their quest to find a treasure." A Cannes premiere is already being touted as a possibility....
- 10/17/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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