Name: 76 Days
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-08-04T09:18:38-07:00
Rating: 100

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A raw, fly-on-the-wall recounting of hospital life in Wuhan in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, 76 Days is an engrossing and potent documentary - and a surprisingly comforting portrait of humanity. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Health care workers and patients combat the COVID-19 outbreak during a lockdown in Wuhan, China.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

Chinese
Director:

Hao Wu, Weixi Chen
Producer:

Jean Tsien, Hao Wu
Writer:

Hao Wu
Release Date (Theaters):

Jan 23, 2021 limited
Runtime:

1h 33m
Production Co:

XTR Film Society, Ford Foundation - Just Films, Esquire China, 76 Days

Cast & Crew

Hao Wu
Director

Weixi Chen
Director

Hao Wu
Writer

Jean Tsien
Producer

Hao Wu
Producer

Geralyn White Dreyfous
Executive Producer

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Critic Reviews for 76 Days

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There are no hugely dramatic moments in 76 Days. It is wholly unsentimental and, allowing for the fact the stream of events must be put into some kind of narrative form, unmanipulative.

February 19, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Lucy Mangan
Guardian
Compelling and surprising, 76 Days is a seemingly apolitical yet oddly sanitised fly-on-the-wall documentary that puts you on the front lines of an eerily well-managed response to the coronavirus outbreak.

February 7, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

David Hughes
Empire Magazine
The takeaway from this thing is...thank GOD for these people.

January 29, 2021 | Full Review…

Mark Kermode
Kermode & Mayo's Film Review
This is primary evidence right from the source of history.

January 28, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Dave Calhoun
Time Out
Timing is everything in current affairs culture, and this intimate documentary account of the first 76 days of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan early last year is an illustrative case.

January 26, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
Crucially, there's also an element of hope and even humour in this affecting tribute to healthcare workers everywhere.

January 24, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Wendy Ide
Observer (UK)
Unforgettable, important and historically significant footage.

February 11, 2021 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Dulcie Pearce
The Sun (UK)
From numerous small moments, it draws together an inspiring picture of collective effort to fight a disaster.

February 8, 2021 | Full Review…

Dan Schindel
Hyperallergic
This should be mandatory viewing for those who still think the coronavirus is a man made media exercise, designed to make pharmaceutical companies rich while economies flatline.

February 6, 2021 | Full Review…

Martin Carr
Flickering Myth
Filled with raw emotion and selfless acts of humanity, it might lack the social and political punch of [Totally Under Control], but it's still brave, bravura and powerful film-making.

February 3, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

James Croot
Stuff.co.nz
Totally absorbing -- from the wildly frenetic start of the total lockdown in the city of 11 million to the film's mostly moving, bittersweet conclusion.

February 2, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5

John Urbancich
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
An essential documentary... portraying the bravery of doctors during the pandemic. [Full review in Spanish]

January 26, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Emmanuel Báez
Cinéfiloz