Cannes prize-winning sci-fi drama Petrov’s Flu from Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov (The Student) will be available in UK cinemas next year and to celebrate we’re revealing the movie’s official poster above!
In Petrov’s Flu, the city in the throes of a flu epidemic and the Petrov family is struggling 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 quite extraordinary.
Said to be ‘an extremely violent and unique experience that is in turns shocking and disturbing, explicit, touching and visually stunning,‘ the film details a surreal day in the life of a comic book artist and his family and is based on the novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu by Alexey Salnikov.
The movie won the prestigious CTS Artist award at this year’s Cannes Film festival, for Vladislav Opelyants’ virtuoso cinematography and was nominated for the Palme d’Or.
Petrov’s Flu will be released in UK cinemas on 11 February 2022 from Sovereign.