Collective

"The result is, quite simply, a stunning achievement. Nanau’s access is extraordinary, his storytelling unerring, and like Tolontan and Voiculescu, he never loses his nerve. If you ever wondered what speaking truth to power really looks like, look no further."

"2021's most shocking, sobering and stunning doco."

"A frightening and important film."

"From its opening moments to the devastating finale, Collective plays like a gripping real-time thriller, merging the reportorial intensity of “Spotlight” with the paranoid uncertainty of “The Manchurian Candidate” as it explores the national fallout of a tragedy that won’t let up."

"The cynicism and indifference to suffering is truly horrible, and a kind of insidious evil rises from the screen like carbon monoxide, and also a terrible sadness."

"Alexander Nanau's Collective has a propulsive energy, relentlessly building in urgency and outrage."

"In its narrative tautness, this documentary can hold its own alongside the best of Romania’s contemporary fiction."

"The film reminds us that without investigative reporting there’s no democracy, and that traditional expectations around impartiality and objectivity may be untenable in the face of horror."

"Nanau's observational style of filmmaking reaches emotional depths."

"It’s a taut, intense procedural, with a resonant story that simultaneously follows a journalistic investigation and an attempt to fix a fatally dysfunctional medical bureaucracy..."

"A fascinating documentary that seems to unfold over real time."

"Gripping, incisive and shockingly powerful, Collective is easily the documentary of the year."

"This is truly a documentary for our times, deserving of widespread exposure."