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With: Nan Goldin, Marina Berio, Noemi Bonazzi, Harry Cullen, Megan Kapler, Patrick Radden Keefe, John Mearsheimer, Annatina Miescher, Darryl Pinckney, Alexis Pleus, Mike Quinn, Maggie Smith, Robert Suarez, David Velasco
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Written by: n/a
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Directed by: Laura Poitras
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 113
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Date: 11/23/2022
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Nan with a Plan
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Laura Poitras's documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (great title!) tells the story of artist and activist Nan Goldin. Her harrowing tale includes her addiction to Oxycontin, and her subsequent attempts to bring down the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, and the ones responsible for the opioid epidemic. The Sacklers donated much of their blood money to various world museums, and many wings and buildings bear their name. As a powerful person who exhibits work on those museums, Goldin devotes herself to getting the Sackler name removed from them all. This is a good story and a good movie, but I didn't find it as extraordinary as Poitras's Citizenfour, which was so urgent and even dangerous. The new film feels a little bit more removed, and comes across as a pretty standard social issue film.
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