Directors John Hoffman and Janet Tobias began following Anthony Fauci early in the COVID-19 pandemic, and their National Geographic documentary juxtaposes these past 18 months with the early days of the fight against AIDS.
as something of a Tale of Two and a Half Pandemics, a chronicle of a public servant whose career has been characterized by endless hard work — 12-hour-days, six days a week — and who is regularly accused of being a murderer. I’d say that some audiences will find everything they need to continue to admire Dr.
With nearly 40 years of ongoing involvement, there’s much more to be said about what was learned in researching and treating AIDS. Here, the force pushing against Fauci and the establishment’s slow progress is ACT UP . The AIDS activist community is well represented in the film, which includes commentary by Peter Staley, Robert Vazquez-Pacheco and Michael Manganiello.
Fauci’s a company man, not a partisan hack. There’s no criticism from him of the Reagan administration, only general acknowledgment of the collective ignorance that forced him into his now familiar position of America’s Medical Explainer. And just as Fauci avoided directly insulting our 45th president in his myriad COVID-related television appearances, he hasn’t chosen this moment as the right time to come out firing.
It turns out that having full and unprecedented access to Anthony Fauci is only a peripherally enlightening thing. The directors followed him through the heart of the pandemic, and the result is very close to “what you see is what you get,” with all the visual dynamism you’d expect from a man whose life has been nonstop Zoom meetings and interviews since early 2020.
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