Tara Brady
Billy Wilder satire, Russian-style? Yuriy Bykov’s The Fool

Billy Wilder satire, Russian-style? Yuriy Bykov’s The Fool

Film Title: The Fool

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As with his previous thriller, The Mayor, writer and director Bykov
incorporates accessible genre beats into a dark satire that might have
pleased Billy Wilder. The young Russian auteur skilfully switches
between a crawling bureaucratic pace redolent of Milos Forman’s