Petrov’s Flu
We were delighted to previously screen this film but we have no current plans to screen it again. If you'd like to watch it in the cinema, consider a private hire to watch it with friends. That does rely on the film being available for private purchase.
Film details
| Film Title | Petrov’s Flu |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 145mins |
| Year | 2021 |
| Country | Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland |
| Director | Kirill Serebrennikov |
| Actors | Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov |
| Language | Russian, English |
| AKA | Petrovy v grippe |
| Showings |
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.
This is some flu: it plunges us into a deeply strange and unsettling version of reality. It’s undeniably confusing, but it leaves you with a powerful, if imprecise, feeling of a society that’s sick from something far worse than a passing virus.
★★★★
Tearing at a mile a minute through an extravagantly surreal vision of Yekaterinburg in the maddening grip (or grippe, if you will) of a flu epidemic, “Petrov’s Flu” is a rowdy, exhilarating return to top form for Serebrennikov.
★★★★
