SummaryA 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.
Directed By:Kirill Serebrennikov
Written By:Alexey Salnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov
Petrov's Flu
Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
83% Positive
15 Reviews
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17% Mixed
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Sep 23, 2022
100
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.
Sep 22, 2022
90
Despite the grimness, the violence and the grotesque bleating of some hateful, prejudiced trolls, the movie never drags you down (though it might exhaust you) because it’s buoyed by Serebrennikov’s bravura, unfettered filmmaking.
Sep 20, 2022
88
Kirill Serebrennikov’s blackly comedic fantasia paints a none-too-rosy picture of Russia, or its Soviet past festering just beneath the surface.
Oct 7, 2022
80
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.
Feb 12, 2022
80
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.
Jul 17, 2021
70
This hallucinatory, deeply confusing but skillfully executed and mesmeric work flows back and forth across time periods, parts of the city of Yekaterinburg and its characters’ memories, often literally within the space of a single shot.
Jul 17, 2021
40
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.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
73% Positive
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Sep 23, 2022
7
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.
Production Company:
- Hype Film
- Logical Pictures
- Bord Cadre Films
- Arte France Cinéma
- Charades
- Razor Film Produktion GmbH
- Sovereign Films (II)
Release Date:Sep 23, 2022
Duration:2 h 25 m
Awards
Nika Awards
• 4 Nominations
Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Golden Unicorn Awards
• 3 Nominations
