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Saturday, May 18, 2019, 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Location:

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#treasure

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#treasure
In his latest feature, Porumboiu has honed his craft of subtle, dry
humor to a marvelously fine point. With the remote, storybook promise
of hidden treasure as the film's driving force, it is the director's
knack for detailing daily minutia that takes most of the spotlight.
Likewise, this outlandishly folkloric premise is taken in stride by
its two searchers, neighbors who have decided to split the riches
fifty-fifty if the less broke Costi fronts the cash for a metal
detector to survey Adrian's inherited and storied land. Neither ever
break a smile when discussing their plan: Porumboiu leaves the
amusement to his audience as the minor complications, doubts and
bureaucracies accumulate and convolute. An unnerving tension gently
mounts alongside the cynical movie-goer's assumption that this pursuit
cannot end well. The real treasure is the film's surprising, mythic
conclusion, the elements of which, Porumboiu keeps hidden in plain,
everyday sight.

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Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 19:00 to 20:30

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