Filmed mostly in a single hospital in the city of Wuhan, Hao Wu’s “76 Days” shows the period of close to three months of lockdown in a Chinese hospital coping with an endless amount of outbreaks. Having unequivocal access to the frontline of doctors and nurses fighting against the virus, this is an unexceptional film that ust wants to give us a peak of what it must have been like at the epicenter of the virus. It helps us understand and feel the horrors of those days when we didn’t know much about COVID-19 and is a tribute to the hospital staff, doctors, nurses and everyone else involved who tried to contain the damaging effects. [B+]
The timing is interesting. The settlement talks will occur nearly a month after the $7 million-per-day ticking fee start tabulating, which puts real pressure on Paramount to get this done.