Concert goers were rocking out at a nightclub in Romania in 2015, when a heavy metal band called Goodbye to Gravity was onstage. The liquor was flowing, the music was blaring. Then someone set off some pyrotechnics, and a fire quickly spread.
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Filmmaker Alexander Nanau’s ‘just the facts’ approach makes the Romanian documentary
Collective an absorbing and startling experience. Nanau’s film has already become critically acclaimed and is nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar this year. The skill he applies to
Collective warrants a review of his previous documentary work. The filmmaker argues he made
Collective to underline the pressure placed on journalists in the era of misinformation or what Donald Trump infamously called ‘fake news’. The spontaneity of
Collective, specifically how immediate the corruption is, makes its findings alarming. We are exposed to the revelations at the same time as the journalists themselves. Nothing is premeditated or manufactured, which stresses the film’s authenticity. Despite the prevalence of the deep-seated corruption imbued throughout Romanian politics and its healthcare system, Nanau is optimistic about the film’s outcome. ‘This film is really a tribute to the
Oscar-nominated documentary Collective is a newsroom thriller about corruption in the Romanian healthcare system
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Narcis Hogea s 19-year-old son Alex survived the Colectiv nightclub fire, but died weeks later in a Romanian hospital.
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Collective an observational documentary about corruption in the Romanian health system that plays out like a jaw-dropping newsroom thriller opens and closes with a father weeping. A communication error killed my son, says the middle-aged man, repeating the government s crass bureaucratic explanation and trying to retain his composure.
He is speaking to a room of strangers: the friends and family left clueless to what went so horribly wrong, after 37 burn victims died in hospital in the four months that followed the 2015 fire at the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest.
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