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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Released Nov 23, 2022

1h 57m

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Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin 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 is a bone-deep look at a photographer's fight against addiction and the institution responsible for her pain through her gritty lens.

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Judy Berman

TIME Magazine

It is Goldin’s courage and determination that make her an effective activist, and her empathetic eye that makes her a great artist.

Mar 10, 2023

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed lives up to its promise. It’s a brilliant, compelling, confronting examination of Goldin’s work through the years.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 2, 2023

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Jenny Nulf

Austin Chronicle

A tremendous documentary, a striking piece of work that is so tender yet biting.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 21, 2023

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Calum Cooper

In Their Own League

Clever, sensitive, and thematically rich, it is an impressive juggling act of dot connecting that does justice and more to the person and movements it is championing.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 15, 2024

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Rudie Obias

Battleship Pretension

There’s a lot of information and story in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, but it never feels heavy, dull, or long-winded.

Mar 13, 2024

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Stephanie Bunbury

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Poitras never shoots Goldin in a way that lionizes her or gives her the stature of a warrior queen... She puts her camera squarely in front of Goldin and shows her at work. In the process, she makes a stupendous work of her own.

Sep 26, 2023

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Rick P

excellent doc exposing all the damage wrought by pure greed.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/23/24

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Zach A

It took a while for the two threads to connect but when they did, the film unveiled its true magic.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/02/23

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Valerie J

This is a compelling look at an artist who is a force of nature and rises up to slay the evil dragon that is the Sackler family. The opioid crisis has killed over 300,000 people and is on-going. Nan Goldin is the Goliath to this sociopathic family. Even after hearing dozens of impact statements as part of their recent hearing, the Sackler family has not accepted blame. There are still institutions that have not taken down the Sackler name and their collections, universities, expansions, etc. are funded by the deaths and suffering of thousands. Nan Goldin is fighting for all those dearly departed.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/24/23

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Johnson F

The title is a quote taken from the mental health evaluation of Nan Goldin's sister and this Oscar-nominated documentary deftly weaves the inspiration behind her 1985 slide show exhibition The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, her troubled personal lives and her battle against the Sackler dynasty responsible for the opioid epidemic in the United States.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/27/23

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Hallam F

Simply incredible. I have not been touched by a film, like this, for quite some time. A testament to the great works of Nan Goldin. If I could award more stars, I would.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/01/23

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Barry L

Nan, her sister Barbara, Goldin's art, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, her activism, the seediness of Times Square...I loved it all! However, at two hours I thought the film, as brilliant and riveting as it was, was too long. And I hate to say this but I think the section on the AIDS crisis, as powerful and painful as it was, could have been cut. (I have no doubt that the filmmakers would vehemently disagree. And, frankly, I cannot blame them.) Had I seen this film last year, it definitely would have been near the top of my Ten Best List.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/06/23

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Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin 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.

Director: Laura Poitras
Producer: Nan Goldin, Howard Gertler, John S. Lyons, Yoni Golijov, Laura Poitras
Screenwriter: Laura Poitras
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Praxis Films, Participant
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 23, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 19, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $500.1K
Runtime: 1h 57m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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