What went into one of the wildest works from one of our greatest literary minds? The Idiot(s) cannot be fully trusted on matters of factual accuracy, but in the unhinged spirit of its portrait of the love between Fyodor Dostoevsky (Johnny Flynn) and his great love of the time, Anna (Aimee Lou Wood) — set during the period when the former went on to write his novel The Idiot — you can trust that the filmmakers and artists had their own kind of singular, bizarre creative alchemy going. The movie, directed by filmmaking partners and former life partners Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, imagines the pair on a kind of dizzying…
