This review of “In the Same Breath” was first published after the film’s premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Already one of the most audacious voices in nonfiction storytelling, director Nanfu Wang has made a career exploring dark passages in the recent history of her native China. So when her homeland became the epicenter of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, she threw herself into a new project under less-than-optimal production conditions.
Premiering at Sundance, the outcome of her meticulous, risky investigation is the incendiary documentary “In the Same Breath,” whose clever title alludes to the botched response to the crisis in both the Asian nation and the United States, while referencing the respiratory malaise the virus causes.
To begin her detailed timeline, Wang turns the dazzling lights of the 2020 New Year’s celebration in Wuhan, the city of about 11 million people where the outbreak began, into an ominous sight. Those...
Already one of the most audacious voices in nonfiction storytelling, director Nanfu Wang has made a career exploring dark passages in the recent history of her native China. So when her homeland became the epicenter of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, she threw herself into a new project under less-than-optimal production conditions.
Premiering at Sundance, the outcome of her meticulous, risky investigation is the incendiary documentary “In the Same Breath,” whose clever title alludes to the botched response to the crisis in both the Asian nation and the United States, while referencing the respiratory malaise the virus causes.
To begin her detailed timeline, Wang turns the dazzling lights of the 2020 New Year’s celebration in Wuhan, the city of about 11 million people where the outbreak began, into an ominous sight. Those...
- 8/18/2021
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
After the excellent “One Child Nation” that dealt with the particular Chinese policy, Nanfu Wang decided to tackle the most timely issue of our days, the virus outbreak in Wuhan, in a documentary that takes a much more personal approach this time, since she experienced the events quite closely. While she was at Sundance as a member of the World Cinema Documentary jury, her 2-year-old son stayed with her mother in China to prepare for the New Year celebrations. As the threat of Covid-19 grew more urgent by the day, her husband traveled to the Wang family’s remote village to safely retrieve their child. Soon, she would scuttle her plans to convene with them in Asia after wrapping things up in Park City, and start doing everything she could to coordinate the emergency return of her loved ones from a viral hotspot.(source: theguardian.com).
“In the Same Breath...
“In the Same Breath...
- 6/28/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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