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Currently Reading In the Same Breath Review: Nanfu Wang s Disquieting Look at the Early Days of COVID in Wuhan
The director s personal and anecdotal approach to documentary illuminates the pandemic from the ground up.
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Director: Nanfu Wang
With: Runzhen Chen, Mingxing Tao, Yingjun Ding, The Li Zhou Family, Diana Torres, Dawn Kulach, Peien Liu, Wenbing Tao, Yawen Wang, The Wusinski Family, Adam Witt, Nicole Warring.
Now that we’re a year into the pandemic (and have a presidential administration that’s forging a sane response to it), the time feels right for taking stock for looking back, in a big-picture way, at how the crisis unfolded, the ways it was mismanaged, and how we can learn from the vast pileup of mistakes and corruption. Nanfu Wang, the director of the wounding and disturbing Sundance documentary “In the Same Breath,” has made exactly that kind of movie. But Wang, the Chinese-America