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76 Days (2020)76 Days (2020)

76 Days (2020)

An urgent plea for empathy told through the initial, frantic outbreak of COVID in Wuhan

Documentary

7.8

movie

China, United States of America
Mandarin
Challenging, Depressing, Discussion-sparking
2020
Hao Wu, Weixi Chen
93 min

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Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

Our Take

7.8
The Staff

Focusing on the personal over the global, 76 Days serves as a valuable reminder for generations to come, of the catastrophic human cost of a pandemic. The film’s directors (including one or more filmmakers who have had to keep themselves anonymous) take an entirely boots-on-the-ground approach in Wuhan, China. Together they find both humanity and the loss of humanity in these individual cases of COVID that are stalled by small inconveniences or a general lack of understanding of the disease. And all of this confusion is punctuated by the humbling fact that we never see the nurses’ faces. It’s a harrowing watch, but it tells us everything we need to know about how much assistance our health workers need and the kind of superhuman things they’re tasked with doing every single day.

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