Murtada Elfadl “Night of Nights” throws the audience immediately into the action. A sick man in a wheelchair and his companion are stopped outside a hospital by a security guard.
All three men are masked and speaking Chinese. He urgently needs a catheter but is treated with suspicion and without courtesy, a negative COVID test is demanded and the patient is turned away because they can’t provide one.
It becomes apparent that this documentary chronicles the early days of the pandemic — and the accompanying existentialchaos and horror.
It has a no-frills approach, showing what the filmmakers could capture at that time of utter confusion. This film has a cloud of secrecy around it for obvious security purposes.
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