Three years after his musical drama “Leto” bowed on the Croisette, Kirill Serebrennikov returns to Cannes’ main competition with “Petrov’s Flu,” a deadpan, hallucinatory romp through a post-Soviet Russia in the grips of a mysterious flu epidemic.
The acclaimed director spoke to Variety about living with fear and making the most out of solitude.How did you get involved with “Petrov’s Flu”?I was hired to write the script.
And I started to read the [novel on which the film is based] and understand how to take this very complicated Russian contemporary literature and turn it into a movie.
In the process, I fell in love with this story, because I found a lot of it very personal.
And when I finished the script, I didn’t want to give it to somebody else.What did you see in it?From my point of view, it’s a very Russian movie, and a very personal film about
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