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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldOften trying and not wholly successful but highly ambitious and ultimately rewarding. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA superbly shot film of emotional extravagance, sentimentality and even humor, House of Fools is a film that is ultimately quite moving but which probably could only have been pulled off by a director steeped in that famous Russian soul. |
| New York TimesDave KehrOnly adds to the sense that Mr. Konchalovsky has lost his artistic moorings. He has certainly lost his common sense. |
| New York ObserverAndrew SarrisA kindly film with a generous heart beaming through the discordant rumblings of useless wars. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldThere's not much to Konchalovsky's tale ... but it's often beautifully told; a gentle fantasy of a harsh time. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarIt 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. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirThe thing is, it works. Or at least it works for me. I left the theater convinced that House of Fools is Konchalovsky's best work in almost 20 years (which it is) and that it might be something close to a masterpiece. |
| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA film where individual scenes shine, but the sum of its parts is, frankly, banal. |
| Film Journal InternationalErica AbeelThe film gradually seduces with its mix of dark humor and pathos, poetic, circus-like music, and haunting characters. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandSo scattered that it fails to emotionally engage the viewer. |
