In the Same Breath

Business as usual has largely resumed in Wuhan, but Wang’s film contends that that’s just the problem.

...an incisive exploration of how political narratives and public health collided in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, and still do.

The film reveals a pandemic to be an inevitable comeuppance for both China and the U.S.’s respective policy failures.

Nanfu Wang returns to the subject of state propaganda with an intimate investigative look at Wuhan's COVID-19 outbreak.

A galling, distressing but enthralling documentary, it opens and closes with New Year’s Eve celebrations in Wuhan, the epicentre of the disease’s outbreak.