All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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2022

2h 2m

English

Documentary

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7.3

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The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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2022

2h 2m

English

Documentary

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Cookie Mueller

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Self (Archive Footage)

Leonard Bernstein

Self (Archive Footage)

Directed By: Laura Poitras

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AlfieSGD says...

2 years ago

"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" is a documentary about the life of the US photographer Nan Goldin. The focus is on her artistic career on the one hand and on her activism against the notorious Sackler family on the other. Both parts are interesting in their own right. Unfortunately, the film also sometimes feels like two separate documentaries. Occasionally, just when you feel like you're really getting into one of the two topics, a sudden jump to the other one pulls you out again. There are certainly points that could connect the two areas. But they don't really become clear. In the end, however, the documentary still works very well.

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smallkindnessesmp3 says...

one year ago

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

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Saint Pauly says...

2 years ago

Like an Oreo: there are two distinct parts but they eventually come together in your gut. There are two documentaries here, the first is about photographer Nan Goldin and her departure from suburbia to the New York art scene of the 70s-80s. The second is documentary is about P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), Goldin's advocacy group out to combat the Sackler family (multi billionaire pharma giants who gained the lion's share of their wealth by pushing first valium and then oxycontin on an unsuspecting public). At the beginning, the juxtaposition of these two documentaries is a little jarring, but as the film progresses we settle into the concept and filmmaker Laura Poitras succeeds in reconciling the two disparate halves.

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Obione_TdG says...

2 years ago

From the trailer and the praise it received, it was one of the movies I was waiting the most. In part it is a documentary on an interesting topic. The biographical part of the protagonist was a bit boring. The documentary about the Sacklers instead represents what a documentary should not be: the scandal was explained in very vague terms, for someone not from US it was a bit difficult to grasp all the details. And it highlighted and imposed a single point of view, that could be fine in this case as it is an agreeable point of view, but a documentary should allow the audience to build its own opinion, not to force one, whatever agreeable or not. This is my take on this, others may disagree however.

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

I have to say that I was really disappointed with this. I had expected a serious critique on the way in which the highly addictive opioid "OxyContin" had come to impact on the lives of millions of American citizens. Instead, we get a rather muddled chronology of the life of activist and journalist N More

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