The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
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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Vadim Rizov
RTAV ClubSep 17, 2015
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.
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Farran Smith Nehme
RTNew York PostSep 16, 2015
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.
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C.J. Prince
RTWay Too IndieJun 6, 2019
Bykov's script and direction are flawless in this sequence, as with each passing moment the severity of the situation ramps up the intensity.
