Remainder

Israeli artist Omer Fast has taken Tom McCarthy’s cult novel and turned it into a gorgeous puzzle of a psychological thriller.

A man is injured by something falling from the sky, and loses his memory. He sets about carefully recreating a particular building, first in cardboard and then – thanks to £8.5 million compensation – in life size, complete with cats tethered to the roof and a woman downstairs who is paid to cook liver all day so that the smell wafts up the stairs. Israeli artist Omer Fast has taken Tom McCarthy’s cult novel and turned it into a gorgeous puzzle of a psychological thriller, with Tom Sturridge as the man bending reality to his will and Arsher Ali as the phlegmatic fixer who helps make it happen.