The Fool (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 19, 2016
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Artyom Bystrov | |
Directed by | Yuriy Bykov | |
Screenwriting by | Yuriy Bykov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
It takes place entirely at night, and the dingy color palette, washed-out and intentionally drab, presents Russia as an almost alien landscape.
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Slant Magazine
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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Variety
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Director Bykov's long dark night of soul is completely engrossing and profoundly alarming.
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Epoch Times
Rating: B+ --
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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AV Club
The voice of the underdog finally finds a cinematic voice in corrupt, class-divided Russia.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 8/10 --
Bykov's script and direction are flawless in this sequence, as with each passing moment the severity of the situation ramps up the intensity.
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Way Too Indie
The Fool unfolds with a powerful, if appalling, logic.
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Georgia Straight
Product Description:
A plumber takes on a corrupt, convoluted web of local politicians on behalf of hundreds of local residents in this earnest underdog drama directed by Yuri Bykov. After an attempt to fix a communal dormitory's burst pipe reveals much more significant structural damage, Dima (Artyom Bystrov) attempts to gain an audience with politicians including the mayor and the police chief, as well as his boss, who is harboring a dark secret.
Product Info
- UPC: 887090119108
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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