Gibney is a veteran documentarian, known for sharp, incisive looks at scandal and corruption ( Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer), but he has never made a film quite like this before: The three filmmakers never worked in the same room at the same time, and some of their interview subjects were shot using a remotely operated contraption dubbed a “COVID-cam,” which was sent to interviewees from afar. It was filmed in secret by filmmakers Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, and Suzanne Hillinger during the frantic months immediately following the economic shutdown, and is now being rushed to release (albeit not indoor theaters) before the election. government’s bungled response to the virus that has now killed nearly a quarter-million Americans. The film is Totally Under Control, an urgent and infuriating new documentary chronicling the U.S. What I did not imagine is watching a film about the pandemic on my couch, still in quarantine, as the pandemic continued to rage on in the outside world. I imagined myself watching it in a Manhattan screening room, surrounded by fellow critics, all of us relieved to have left that crisis behind. In March and April, as the COVID-19 pandemic devastated New York and forced us all to adapt to the rhythms and rituals of life in lockdown, I figured someday I’d watch a well-researched documentary about the disaster. Totally Under Control NEON and PARTICIPANT
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