We’re used to actors mimicking the howls desperation, but it’s quite something else to see the human agony unfold in this extraordinary documentary
It is hardly a pressing concern, of course, but what screen drama is going to look like after Covid is, increasingly, a point to ponder. Reality has given the lie to so much now, and never more clearly than in the new offering from documentary maker Hao Wu (with the newcomer Weixi Chen), 76 Days (Sky Documentaries).
It is a fly-on-the-wall, 95-minute film that is set almost entirely in the main hospital in Wuhan during the 76 days that the Chinese city in which the virus originated shut down to try to contain its spread. People bang on the doors to be let in, as we have been taught to expect, but the staff are much more succinct and unconvulsed by sorrow when they have to keep them outside. There is no time for reflection or self-indulgence in a crisis, as Covid has reaffirmed.
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