Fresh
Vysotsky projects an essential sunniness that helps keep the film from turning maudlin.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
House of Fools
It's a mad, mad, mad world...
2002 · 1h 44m · R
Drama, Romance, War
Directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky
Overview
The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
40%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It may be based on a true story, but another filmmaker told it before -- and better.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Rotten
It ultimately feels like a folly that sounded great in the filmmaker's head, so great that he had to be put on screen, where it flounders around with no small degree of embarrassment.
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
There's not much to Konchalovsky's tale ... but it's often beautifully told; a gentle fantasy of a harsh time.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten
With its cast of nauseatingly lovable lunatics, House of Fools may make you feel like you've been tricked into suffering through the Kevin Spacey flick K-Pax with subtitles.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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