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The Fool

2014 1h 56m Drama List
93% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 91% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
Dima, a plumber's assistant, is sent to fix a leak in a derelict building and discovers the structure is near collapse. When he notifies the mayor of the situation, he learns other interests come before ordinary citizens.

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Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine The Fool (Durak) feels like a realist counterpart to Andrei Zvyagintsev's Leviathan, more accessible as mainstream drama, and more pragmatically critical of a tainted system. Sep 18, 2015 Full Review Vadim Rizov AV Club The dialogue is broadly generalized, urgently on point, and bracing in its undisguised diagnostic fury. If you can accept its unabashed didacticism, The Fool plays crisply. Rated: B+ Sep 17, 2015 Full Review Farran Smith Nehme New York Post He may be saddled with an overly ironic title role, but Bystrov is terrific. His cowboy squint and dogged intelligence are enough to give you hope for Russia, although the movie certainly won't. Rated: 2.5/4 Sep 16, 2015 Full Review C.J. Prince Way Too Indie Bykov's script and direction are flawless in this sequence, as with each passing moment the severity of the situation ramps up the intensity. Rated: 8/10 Jun 6, 2019 Full Review Joe Bendel Epoch Times Director Bykov's long dark night of soul is completely engrossing and profoundly alarming. Rated: 4.5/5 May 20, 2016 Full Review Adrian Mack Georgia Straight The Fool unfolds with a powerful, if appalling, logic. Feb 22, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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Sean It's a drama which portrays emotions like hope, panic and apathy excellently with its cast and setting. Highly recommend giving it a watch Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/26/23 Full Review Karl-Reinhold S The movie draws you into a harsh reality of rich vs poor. The fool demonstrates why there is no room for people with morals. In the end, people are the same, cruel, with some having caviar on their tables and others, pickles. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/18/23 Full Review Siriporn P Quite unrealist that the building is cracking this far but no one ever notices it plus that the building is about to collapse within 24 hours. Anyway, the big picture of the plot is good and reflects quite "human". Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/11/23 Full Review Audience Member It is awesome !! The comedy just continues!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I've seen my fair share of solid Russian flicks. Old or new, the Russians have been putting out solid films for years, and this is another one. A man, the only one left in town with a good heard it seems, finds out that a big building is about to collapse and hundreds will die. He stir it up for the local government and they don't like it. We get to se how he, and everyone else deals with it. It's bleak and cold. It's raw and grim, but our protagonist keeps a small light lit. It's beautiful. Well acted and well produced. Rarely flat and it stays interesting the whole 120 minutes. I read that the man that was in charge of an Russian channel that screened it on television lost his job straight after it was shown. It does not surprise me. Kind of important, especially of you consider how a made up film can be important for something other than entertainment and self pleasure. 9 out of 10 cracks. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review robbie v In a bleak, cold Russian town one man stands up against the totally corrupt town officials who use government funding to feather their own nests while the infrastructure around them crumbles. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Dima, a plumber's assistant, is sent to fix a leak in a derelict building and discovers the structure is near collapse. When he notifies the mayor of the situation, he learns other interests come before ordinary citizens.
Director
Yuriy Bykov
Screenwriter
Yuriy Bykov
Production Co
Rock Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Russian
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 17, 2017
Runtime
1h 56m