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All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (2022)

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (2022)

A stunning portrait of the artist as activist

The Very Best

9.0

Movie

United States of America
English
Documentary, Drama
2022
FEMALE DIRECTOR, LAURA POITRAS
Annatina Miescher, Bernard Herrmann, Cookie Mueller
122 min

What it's about

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.

The take

In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, documentarist Laura Poitras (Citizenfour, My Country, My Country) lends her empathetic and incisive lens to a subject so passionate and imaginative, she ends up collaborating with Poitras to co-create the documentary about her life. The subject is Nan Goldin, one of the most influential photographers of the late 20th century. 

The documentary captures Goldin’s work as a queer artist and anti-opioids activist, intertwining both aspects to tell a nuanced and incredibly important story about freedom, identity, and self-expression. This incredibly complex, encompassing, and vibrant feature won the top award at the Venice Film Festival, besting 19 other films from around the world.

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