#Petrov's Flu

[mtonino]

Cinediario 2023 - novembre

Petrov's Flu (2021) Kirill Serebrennikov

[watchingalotofmovies]

Petrov's Flu

Petrov's Flu    [trailer]

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.

The plot summary gives a good indication of what to expect. But it has to be watched to experience the energy it has. It's a chaotic, surreal tour de force where a lot is going on. It's virtuoso on a technical level. And often darkly funny.

It slows down for a while in the second half when time switches back to (I think) childhood memories. It feels like a different movie. But it's fine to get a break from the frantic pace of the rest.

I love how Chulpan Khamatova turns up in all kinds of films. I always enjoy seeing her.

[seepweed]

my absolute favourite thing authors do in books is to recontextualise little facts and details in the world. to pick a definitely random example (SPOILERS!!!!!), in "petrov's flu" (alexei salnikow, 2017), the titular petrow tells us that his son has pink tights that wash out in the laundry. this fact is forgotten by the reader when, approximately 100 pages later, his wife tells us that she kills people regularly and that after being soaked in blood once, she put the son's tights in the wash with the blood stained clothes to avoid suspicion.

i fucking ate the paper at that point isn't that a cool way to convey how we percieve different things from different perspectives. sorry i'm tipsy and tired rn but like. oh my god are you seeing this shit?!?!!!??!

[kristenswig]

#285. Petrov’s Flu - Kirill Serebrennikov

3.5/5

[moviemosaics]

Petrov’s Flu

directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, 2021

[moviesteve]

Petrov's Flu https://bit.ly/3fTNkLO Kirill Serebrennikov, the director of Petrov’s Flu (Petrov v grippe), wasn’t at Cannes in 2021 to see his film screened, as he hadn’t been at Cannes to see his previous film, LETO, screened in 2018. He was under house arrest back home in Russia, having been accused of embezzling funds from the Seventh Studio, one of several cultural institutions he was connected to. The charges were widely seen as trumped up, part of Vladimir Putin’s ongoing fight against liberal elements in Russia – Serebrennikov is a vocal supporter of LGBT causes. Given all that background, you might expect Petrov’s Flu, a fictional work but one set in the post-Soviet era, when society had … Read more

[ascorian]

i was tagged by my dearest @lnox-shitpost !! i've been unable to use my puter these days but ANYWAY here i am

favorite color: green :) i realised that i actually have a favourite colour only recently and it's the wierdest feeling ever!!

currently reading: yoooo i've recently read "closed. life of gay people in ussr" by rustam alexander. devastating reading. now i'm reading "sacred and terrible air" by robert kurvitz. seems to be not less devastating than the previous one but i hope to get from it more disco elysium lore.

and to be honest i'm listening to the audiobooks more than read normally. my favourite one is "petrov's flu" by alexey salnikov. i've listened to it like 3 times and still find it very fun smart and charming

last series: atlanta by donald glover!!! i love this man's art

sweet, savory or spicy: all of them are good. even all at once ok too

currently working on: nothing 'cause universities suck. but the last thing i wanted to do was the mafuemu comic i've thought of last year. i don't think that i'll finish it but i HOPE. SOMEDAY.

look at this cute part

tagging @gastik00 @chernkii and @princesslunasgf

[nedxnancy]

Just finished rereading Double Jinx Mystery (the Nancy Drew book my avatar image is from!)

A chapter-ending cliffhanger is a guy asking “so when are you two getting married?” after Nancy and Ned were asking about an apartment building development plan

Nancy turns beet red and Ned looks at the ground and they’re like “ummmmm we aren’t 😶”

Ned comes down with Bird Flu and Nancy is immediately like “LET ME PLAY NURSE”

(She already has that outfit, Ned’s into outfits)

(He’s had this request for a LONG TIME)

Despite being forbidden to care for him, she comes down with it too

(She was 100% sneaking in there for “caregiving” reasons, he was AT HER HOUSE, it was giving Jane Austen)

Ned gets delirious and demands to speak to her and she’s like “fuck it, I WILL NOT just stay in the doorway, he NEEDS ME”

Nancy has been named a witch by the end????????????? Like with a ceremony???????????

This is also, I am convinced, the genesis of the Sasha Petrov love triangle in Files 48-50

[clevernews]

«Ο πυρετός του Πετρόφ» (Petrov's Flu)

από τις 23 Νοεμβρίου στους κινηματογράφους από την Weirdwave To «κακό παιδί» του ρωσικού κινηματογράφου επιστρέφει με σκηνικό μια επιδημία γρίπης στη μετασοβιετική Ρωσία, σε μία ταινία με καταιγιστική δράση και …πυρετώδη ρυθμό Η Weirdwave, από τις 23/11, παρουσιάζει  την ταινία Ο Πυρετός του Πετρόφ του Κίριλ Σερεμπρένικοφ. O τολμηρός ρώσος σκηνοθέτης αφηγείται μια ιστορία για τον αγώνα μιας…

[inapat16]

The post-soviet madness from Petrov's point of view (Part 3/4)

The first scene of the movie: Petrov is in the middle of a public execution. This is how Serebrennikov starts the movie which is the topic of this article, a drama of a destroyed country after a long running dictatorship. 

This  movie is very interesting to analyze because it portrays the deepest wrongs in post Soviet Union society: unemployment and misery. This is a portrait of the actual destroyed Russia, a tired Russia, where people are living without helping each other and they are all suffering from bad government decisions. Life is so hard that the only solution for the main character is to get lost in his memories, even if they are fake sometimes. And in a way, the way Serebrennikov describes his country can only be true because of its brutality: he shows us crime, misogyny, racism and political violence. In this movie we actually can see a lot of the similarity between the Soviet Union with his hard reforms and the actual situation with Putin’s political choices. The memories of Petrov’s and his actual state doesn’t show us a big change. 

Since Serebrennikov first appearance in the movie industry, his film was presented for the first time in Europe in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d’Or (and it won the Vulcan Award for cinematography). His movie became a sort of symbol for freedom of speech because he kept making them while being under house arrest - as we saw previously. This can be seen in the help of Serebrennikov with the productions from France, Switzerland, Germany and the United States. As he says himself: 

“[Petrov’s Flu] came at a rather difficult time in my life. Like an outlet, an essential joy, even a lifeline”. 

[mtonino]

Side by Side

Il Deserto Rosso (1964) Michelangelo Antonioni

Petrov's Flu (2021) Kirill Serebrennikov

[somebaconlover]

Petrov's Flu (2021)

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov

Cinematography by Vladislav Opelyants

Starring Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova and Yuri Kolokolnikov

"Oh sky,oh sky,I shall dream of you.

It could not be that you've gone utterly blind.

And the day burned up like a blank page.

a little smoke and a little ash."

[seepweed]

i hope that you all know that petrov has fever. that his family has fever, that his society, his city has fever - in fact our society as a whole has fever. i hope you know that he is really and truly, in all ways of the word: sick.

[kristenswig]

Best Film Editing

Winner:

Saint Omer - Amrita David

Nominees:

Blonde - Adam Robinson Nope - Nicholas Monsour TÁR - Monika Willi Watcher - Michael Block You Won't Be Alone - Luca Cappelli

Best Original Score

Winner:

After Yang - Aska Matsumiya, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Nominees:

Babylon - Justin Hurwitz Smile - Cristóbal Tapia de Veer The Stranger - Oliver Coates The Wonder - Matthew Herbert You Won't Be Alone - Mark Bradshaw

Best Sound Editing

Winner:

Nope - Johnnie Burn

Nominees:

Flux Gourmet - Tim Harrison Men - Glenn Freemantle Prey - Will Files, Chris Terhune A Wounded Fawn - Matt Davies You Won't Be Alone - Emma Bortignon, Samuel Baker, Duncan Campbell, Adrian Medhurst

Best Sound Mixing

Winner:

Blonde - Lisa Pinero, Leslie Schatz

Nominees:

Black Box - Marc Doisne Nope - Johnnie Burn, José Antonio García Prey - Chris Terhune, Craig Henighan, Ron Osiowy TÁR - Deb Adair, Steve Single, Rolande Winke, Andy Shelley You Won't Be Alone - Vladimir Cuk

Best Visual Effects

Winner:

Nope

Nominees:

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Men Petrov's Flu

[micolecciondepelis]

PETROV'S FLU Kirill Serebrennikov 🇷🇺 2021 Petrov es escritor de cómics y sobrevive con su familia en la Rusia postsoviética. Con el país sumido en una epidemia de gripe, Petrov y su amigo Igor se embarcan en una alucinante travesía marcada por los delirios febriles y un gran baño de alcohol. A lo largo de un día, ambos amigos deambulan entre los reinos de la fantasía y la realidad, fundiéndose en el presente y pasado de los sueños del escritor y también de la propia Rusia.

[fourstarvideocoop]

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