'20 Days in Mariupol' is a difficult yet essential watch about the siege of this city in Ukraine. Our sundance2023 review:
I will admit that I avoided watching 20 Days in Mariupol for much of my time at Sundance Film Festival. That wasn't a reflection on its quality as a documentary, on the contrary, I had every confidence that it would be an informative and emotional watch. What I also knew was that it could be potentially traumatizing and difficult to swallow.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY We follow Chernov and his crew from the very beginning of the siege to their escape on the 20th day, watching as conditions progressively worsened for the civilians, soldiers, and first responders of the city. Chernov's camera takes us to the faces of victims of shellings and bombings, terrified families who had to leave their homes behind in order to stay alive.
Chernov's particular focus on the first responders and at the hospital provides a new level of sorrow. We watch as doctors and nurses treat patient after patient — some mere infants — with dwindling essential supplies like painkillers, and they must swallow their own tears when the patients die and watch as the patient's family members sob over their bodies.
While there can be something sterile and detached about watching news report after news report of what is happening on the ground in Ukraine, numbing people to the realities of war, Chernov's documentary is distinctly interested in the individual human faces behind this illegal invasion. We meet civilians who give us their personal accounts, some that we meet again later in a shelter, and others we see as corpses.
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