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“It’s Just Human Emotions”: Director Hao Wu On Drama Of Oscar-Contending Covid Doc ’76 Days’

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The Oscar-contending documentary 76 Days, set in hospitals in Wuhan, China as the city endured lockdown after the eruption of Covid-19, is cinéma vérité par excellence.

No sit-down interviews, no TV news reports spliced in—just the pure visual drama of medical workers and patients ensnared in an unprecedented crisis.“In the early days of edit…we were still thinking about putting some news clips or some social media videos around the scenes to give the film a little bit more context of what’s happening,” director Hao Wu tells Deadline. “But then in the end…the scenes themselves were so powerful, anytime we add something else to it, it distracts, made it worse.”The powerful scenes range from a nurse agonized with grief as the body of her

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