Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 2/25/16] | Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Il film di Zellner è un piccolo viaggio eccentrico, dentro e fuori dal cinema, che riesce ad essere contemporaneamente un omaggio e un monito al potere della fantasia e dell’immaginazione.
- Laura Clifford @ r
- Excerpt: …grounded by a moving performance by producer Rinko Kikuchi who is surrounded by a memorable cast of supporting players. This melancholy comedy will haunt you.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The simplicity of the setup works, so perhaps all of this layering—of truth and legend and flights of fancy—is an unnecessary burden here.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’ is a stunning film based on the real-life story of a young Japanese woman who took a similar disclaimer at the start of a movie too literally.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: There’s an air of surrealism that infuses her life as if it were a dream. But Kumiko is such an enigma that it’s difficult to embrace the character.
- Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
- Excerpt: There are more than a few treasures to be found in this misguided adventure.
- Greg Klymkiw @ The Film Corner
- Excerpt: There isn’t a false note to be found in this gorgeously acted, directed and photographed movie. It is not without humour, but none of it is at Kumiko’s expense and when the film slowly slides into full blown tragedy, the Zellners surround Kumiko in the ever-accumulating high winds and snow under the big skies of Minnesota. We get, as she does, a bittersweet taste of happiness – a dream of triumph, a dream of reunion, a dream of peace, at last.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Don Lewis @ Film Threat
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: A little long and convoluted, but it has a good heart and an absurdist wit
- Mike McGranaghan @ Film Racket
- Excerpt: Beautifully acted, smartly written, skillfully directed, and gorgeously photographed.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: X marks the spot!
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
- Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: The Zellners’ film strives for something far more ambitious and complex than a paean to quirky individuality. By portraying their protagonist as an erratic, dyspeptic figure and her goal as a ludicrous misapprehension, the filmmakers reframe the story as a sobering moral conundrum.