As the one year anniversary of the first lockdown approaches, 76 Days follows the initial efforts in the epicentre Wuhan. Hao Wu, Anonymous and Weixi Chen’s tale of human resilience has been met with excellent reviews. Watch this essential COVID-19 doc on demand from 22 January.
“A textbook triumph over adversity”
★★★★
Empire
“A potent and horrifying document”
★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“A startling picture from inside Wuhan’s besieged hospitals at the onset of the pandemic”
Screen Daily
“Mind-boggling”
Uncut
“Essential viewing for now and the future”
The Playlist
“A tribute to the heroic efforts of the workers it follows”
The Atlantic
“Watch this film to see how horrible Covid-19 is. Wear your mask"
The Irish Times
★★★★
The List
★★★★
The Scotsman
On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis in four hospitals, 76 DAYS tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic—from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father, a grandpa with dementia searching for his way home, a couple anxious to meet their newborn, to a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased. These raw and intimate stories bear witness to the death and rebirth of a city under a 76-day lockdown, and to the human resilience that persists in times of profound tragedy.