Yuri Bykov’s third film is a captivating thriller about a smalltime plumber who discovers a tower block is on the verge of collapse. Trying to save the largely indifferent residents of the crumbling building, he stumbles across a corruption scam led by the town Mayor. Grimly absurd and critically lauded, The Fool reflects on modern Russian reality as well as harking back to Dostoevsky’s Idiot and confirms Bykov’s place at the forefront of modern Russian cinema.