Petrov's Flu

Petrov's Flu

2021 · 145 min · RU · 6.3 (103 votes)
Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov · Starring Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Aleksandr Ilyin Jr, Nikolay Kolyada · Music Aydar Salakhov
DramaScience FictionComedy

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 where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be extraordinary.

VIBE

A fever dream on screen. This film plunges you into a disorienting, hallucinatory journey through memory and reality. It's a gritty, darkly funny, and profoundly melancholic exploration of the human psyche.

surrealdisorientingmelancholicdarkly comedicconfusingslow-burnarthousepsychedelicgritty realismpost-Soviet aestheticmemoryreality vs. fantasytraumafamily
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