The Fool, by Christine Edzard & Olivier Stockman, was made a few years after her mammoth filming of Little Dorritt. The source for Edzard and Stockman’s screenplay was a group of interviews collected by Henry Mayhew (cofounder of Punch), which give first hand working class accounts of the period. The picture recounts the story of a working class clerk (for a theatre) who passes himself off in Good Society as Sir John, the unseen patron of the theatre, for whom he has power of attorney. After swindling various business men out of a million pounds, using their own entirely legal methods, he scatters the money out the window to the wind, as they watch.
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