Petrov’s Flu as an Escape from Reality
Petrov’s Flu as an Escape from Reality
Author(s): Marian Sorin RădulescuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: Alexey Salnikov; Petrov’s Flu; Review;
Summary/Abstract: The mainstream repertoire in the cinemas is made up of either “escapist” stories (produced and directed at Hollywood) or, occasionally, of observational, realistic kitchen sink dramas (produced and directed in Europe, Romania included). Realism and fantasy (“the two sides of the same coin”, said Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky) rarely meet on screen, as they happily co-exist in the astonishing, non-linear, fictious works by Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, or Chinghiz Aitmatov, where the reader can hardly find any signposts between fantasy and reality. When they do, the screening of such and ambitious epic like Petrov’s Flu becomes a feast
Journal: International Journal on Humanistic Ideology
- Issue Year: XIII/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 125-129
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English