The latest from the Chinese-born, U.S.-based documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang ('One Child Nation') is a powerful mix of the personal and the political.
Toward the end of “In the Same Breath,” her chilling and mournful documentary about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the director Nanfu Wang hits the reset button. What if, rather than squelching rumors about “an unknown pneumonia” in Wuhan, the Chinese government had immediately announced the discovery of a novel coronavirus, urged everyone to stay home and warned other countries of the imminent threat? What if those countries, like the U.S.
To watch “In the Same Breath” — and it’s worth watching, even amid the endless COVID-19 documentary that life has become — is to bemoan and perhaps envy those early, ignorant days. Wherever you were when you first heard about the coronavirus, the movie suggests, there were few worse places to be than Wuhan.
The ominous scale of the government coverup conveys clear echoes of “One Child Nation,” Wang’s blistering 2019 exposé of China’s now-defunct one-child policy. And as in that film, Wang, who was born in China but now lives in the U.S., also focuses on the strange, often contradictory parallels between two politically and ideologically opposed nations.
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