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The Fool
Directed by
Yury Bykov
2015
1h 56m
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8.0
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Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
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Cast of The Fool
Artyom Bystrov
Nikitin
Natalya Surkova
Galaganova
Yuriy Tsurilo
Bogachev
Boris Nevzorov
Fedotov
Kirill Poluhin
Matyugin
Alexander Korshunov
father
Olga Samoshina
mother
Darya Moroz
Masha
Sergei Artsybashev
Tulsky
Elena Panova
drunkard's wife
Dmitriy Kulichkov
drunkard
Ilya Isaev
Safronov
Maksim Pinsker
Sayapin
Lyubov Rudenko
Razumikhina
Irina Nizina
Chernenko
Gordey Kobzev
Nikitin's son
Pyotr Barancheev
Emelyanov
Angelina Rimashevskaya
Andrey Sidorenko
Nina Antyukhova
The Fool Ratings & Reviews
Way Too Indie
C.J. Prince
Bykov's script and direction are flawless in this sequence, as with each passing moment the severity of the situation ramps up the intensity.
Epoch Times
Joe Bendel
Director Bykov's long dark night of soul is completely engrossing and profoundly alarming.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
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.
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Louis Proyect
The voice of the underdog finally finds a cinematic voice in corrupt, class-divided Russia.
AV Club
Vadim Rizov
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.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
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.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"The Fool" wraps its Hobbesian vision of squalor around a fable worthy of Frank Capra, but twisted to suggest a cruel inversion of Capra's inspirational allegories of humble Everymen crusading for justice and democratic ideals.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
An expose' that rises above finger pointing to create a masterpiece of tension and suspense.
Slant Magazine
Drew Hunt
It takes place entirely at night, and the dingy color palette, washed-out and intentionally drab, presents Russia as an almost alien landscape.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
Drably shot and sometimes laughably on-the-nose.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
A distressing moral drama, gripping thriller and scathing sociopolitical portrait of Russia rolled into one.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Frank Capra would have approved of The Fool, a forceful Russian drama in which a lone plumber stands up to a corrupt system on behalf of the people living in a squalid apartment building.
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