The first word heard in 76 Days is an anguished cry — "Papa!" — as a group of hazmat-suited medical workers race through the corridors of a hospital and the film plunges straight into the turmoil and agony of the coronavirus.
The grief-stricken daughter is one of those workers, arriving at her father's room too late to bid him goodbye. Her colleagues restrain her, console her, try to calm her; they'll need her to stay strong for the afternoon shift.
That this aching scene unfolds without a single face fully visible makes it all the more haunting. In almost every frame of 76 Days, a remarkable front-line report that's the work of three directors, most of the figures we see are covered head to toe in personal protective equipment.
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