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Petrov’s flu review: A surreal journey through one man’s delirium

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Petrov’s Flu is an ode to Russian sci-fi and absurdist art Sergey Ponomarev/Sovereign Films Petrov’s Flu Kirill Serebrennikov In UK cinemas now PETROV (Semyon Serzin) is riding a trolleybus home across the snowbound city of Yekaterinburg when a fellow passenger mutters that the rich deserve to be shot. Seconds later, the bus stops, Petrov is pulled onto the … Read more

Memoria review: A surreal and immersive journey into the human mind

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By Francesca Steele Jessica searches every corner of Colombia for the source of the noise Neon Film Memoria Apichatpong Weerasethakul “IN THIS town, there are a lot of people who have hallucinations,” a doctor tells Jessica (Tilda Swinton) at the beginning of Memoria. Then, in a neat encapsulation of the mix of the mystical and … Read more