All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

Laura Poitras’ documentary on Nan Goldin and the fight against the Sacklers
Documentary
US
Published

October 8, 2022

BLUF

Great documentary. See it. A terrific telling of Nan Goldin’s role creating P.A.I.N. and fighting for some measure of justice against the Sacklers; at the same time a biography of Nan Goldin.

Thoughts

I found myself swept away by Goldin’s no-bullshit honesty. She’s led what would be at least three full lives: runaway, artist, AIDS activist, anti-opioids activist. Her life manages to span the Vietnam war, 80’s punk, the AIDS epidemic, the opioid epidemic.

Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras