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Vulcain Prize for an artist technician, awarded by the C.S.T. 2021. A deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and ...
Jul 12, 2021 · July 12, 2021 8:12pm. PETROV’S FLU Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival. Having taken with Leto a nostalgic look back on the Soviet Union’s underground music scene in the 1980s, Russian writer ...
Aug 5, 2022 · Opening at the IFC Center in New York on September 23rd, 2022.PETROV’S FLU directed by acclaimed Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov (LETO) is a deadpan, ...
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A labyrinthine fever dream of contemporary Russia, this maximalist epic from Kirill Serebrennikov is an exhilarating work of acrobatic formalism. Following a comic book artist suffering from a mysterious illness, Petrov’s Flu takes an anxious, timely plunge into the dark nights of the Russian soul.
Petrov's got the flu and nyquil can't fix it. On the bus back home the fever dream kicks in and he gets into all sorts of antics. Executing the rich, assisted suicide, meeting the snow maiden, drinking with friends, it's not quite clear which of these are real and which are simply his flu- and alcohol-addled hallucinations.
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Jul 12, 2021 · Set in a city plagued by a flu epidemic, Petrov’s Flu narrates the hallucinatory journey of Petrov, who is weakened by a high fever and finds himself led by his friend Igor on a long, drunken wander. Between dreams and reality, Petrov’s childhood memories gradually resurface and merge with the present. Written like a symphony, the film ...
