All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022 2h 2m EN

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★7.1TMDB · 176

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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.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Nan Goldin
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Marina Berio
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Noemi Bonazzi
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Harry Cullen
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Megan Kapler
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Annatina Miescher
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Mike Quinn
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Patrick Radden Keefe
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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Laura Poitras
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 5

ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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2 / 5

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Stephan Crasneanscki. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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3 / 5

DIRECTOR

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Editor Brian A. Kates shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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4 / 5

ERA

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Nan Goldin and Marina Berio and Noemi Bonazzi carry the top of the cast.

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IMDB entry: tt21374850 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Laura Poitras directs. Stephan Crasneanscki scores. Brian A. Kates cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2Original score by Stephan Crasneanscki. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
3Editor Brian A. Kates shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Nan Goldin and Marina Berio and Noemi Bonazzi carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt21374850 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Classified under 21 themes, including "aids", "photographer", "photography", "political activism".

The technical file

Original score: Stephan Crasneanscki
Editing: Brian A. Kates
Sound: Christopher Koch
Runtime: 122 min · 2h 2m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $1,483,975
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

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Golden Lion

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CinemaSerf2022-10-20
★ 5/10
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 Nan Goldin, interspersed by the odd demonstration aimed at destroying the reputation of the Sackler family - all of the founders of which (and therefore the principal collectors of the art and the original altruists) had been long dead. We are expected to have far too high a degree of knowledge here for the scientific elements to make sense. It, at no stage, offers us any explanation as to what the drug is, how and why it was prescribed - what was it supposed to do? Nor do we have any contributions from the US Federal Drug Administration or from the medical profession as to just how this was being prescribed by qualified medical personnel the nation over, without any ongoing assessment of it's effects nor any signs of intervention from national - or state - medical authorities. It takes far too simplistic an approach to these crucial and equally negligent issues, is scant on detail and in the end comes across as little better than a one-woman-rant. The fact that Goldin herself led a fascinating and interesting life may well be the subject of a documentary in it's own right - she was an hugely creative lady; but as a documentary on an shocking issue that could have informed me, I found it seriously lacking and one-sided. There can be no doubt that this drug, amongst others, caused abject misery to millions - but this really does miss an opportunity to educate and inform and maybe even to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the policing authorities and the courts when it comes to dealing with large-scale abuses. Pity, had it laid out arguments and offered us something of a balance it could have been so very much more interesting.

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