Treasure, a gentle character-based drama starring Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham, addresses the Holocaust very differently to other recent films. The film, adapted from Lily Bret’s novel, uses whimsy and anecdote instead of shock tactics. Thankfully, it still provides probing insight into everything from casual antisemitism to the plague of historical forgetfulness. Fry and Dunham play father and daughter Edek and Ruth who, in 1991, travel from New York to Poland to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. He is a Polish survivor of the camps. She is a journalist desperate to find out about her past. The British actor gives a charming and moving performance. His Edek is a white-whiskered and eccentric figure, continually cracking jokes and tipping the Polish hotel staff extravagantly. Dunham and Fry have an effective comic rapport. They make an appealing odd couple, with Dunham as the grumpy Walter Matthau-type to Fry’s ever optimistic Jack Lemmon.–The Independent

“Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham are the charismatic double act you never knew you needed in this low-key tearjerker about repressed grief and family tensions.”–Times (UK)