A new UK trailer has arrived online for the Cannes prize-winning film Petrov’s Flu, which is landing in cinemas next month. The sci-fi is described as a deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia, based on the novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu by Alexey Salnikov.
The film details a surreal and fantastic day in the life of a comic book artist and his family. It 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. The film was also selected to play in the ‘Dare’ section of last year’s BFI London Film Festival. It is being released with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK.
Here is the official synopsis:
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 quite extraordinary.
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Here’s the new trailer.
