Petrov's Flu

Name: Petrov's Flu
Genre: Drama
Released: September 23, 2022
Duration: 145 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Aleksandr Ilin, Aleksandra Revenko, Chulpan Khamatova, Georgiy Kudrenko, Semyon Serzin

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 23, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Aleksandr Ilin, Aleksandra Revenko, Chulpan Khamatova, Georgiy Kudrenko, Semyon Serzin, Sergei Dontsov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Yuliya Peresild, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Yuriy Borisov

Summary: A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 145 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Sep 23, 2022

All of it staged and shot with conscientiousness and ingenuity rarely seen in films from any country anymore. It is indeed a phantasmagoria, and perhaps an overload. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Jul 17, 2021

Petrov’s Flu is fascinating partly because of the chunky muscularity – the inherent masculine brawniness – of Serebrennikov’s filmmaking, in which dreams are as solid and hard-edged as reality, and reality is a blockish, jostling thing. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jul 19, 2021

While Serebrennikov may be banned from leaving Russia, his imagination, as well as his cast and crew, have been left gratifyingly free to roam: In its form-bending construction and surreal imagery, Petrov’s Flu plays like the work of an artist thrillingly unbound. Read full review

Mark Asch

Feb 12, 2022

This is breathtaking filmmaking, but would be a little hard to take for two-and-a-half hours. Thankfully, Serebrennikov has more tricks up his sleeve. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 7, 2022

In its interlocking parts and willfully impenetrable details, Serebrennikov wants you to know that being Russian is too complicated to foreground one emotion or experience, or to rely on the safety of the linear when one day can feel like nothing and everything. This brazenly packed movie isn’t for everyone. Neither, we grasp, is being Russian. Read full review

Demetrios Matheou

Sep 23, 2022

At its best, it’s signature Serebrennikov: ambitious, eccentrically amusing, visually flamboyant. But the film’s radical potential is ultimately diluted by its freewheeling nature. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jul 17, 2021

No one could doubt the technical mastery of this movie and its formal audacity. But for all that, I found something unliberating in its mercurial restlessness. Read full review

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bertobellamy

Sep 23, 2022

Bonkers film from Kirill Serebrennikov ('Leto'). I still don't know what I just saw; definitely will need another watch later to figure out its labyrinthine plot. The history more or less follows a guy and his family in Russia after the fall of communism. Everyone suffers from annoying flu,Bonkers film from Kirill Serebrennikov ('Leto'). I still don't know what I just saw; definitely will need another watch later to figure out its labyrinthine plot. The history more or less follows a guy and his family in Russia after the fall of communism. Everyone suffers from annoying flu, and then weird things begin to happen. There are like three stories within the main story; the poster encapsulates this. What I get from all of this is a recollection of feelings from around the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it's hard to tell. While 'Leto' was accessible and fun, 'Petrov's Flu" is cryptic, dreamy, and wild. But there's no denying that this is vanguardist cinema at its peak.… Expand

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