"A sublime and gritty knockout." - Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
"Ultimately, Poitras’s portrait of Goldin reveals the ways in which she has always sought to destigmatize marginalized subjects like sex work, battered women, queerness, and addiction." - Marya E Gates, RogerEbert.com
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras returns with the extraordinary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, recent winner of the Golden Lion at Venice International Film Festival. The film follows the iconoclastic artist and pugnacious activist Nan Goldin, famed for her vital and poignant photographs of artists and hustlers in the Bohemian East Village. The film provides an intimate overview of Goldin’s life and career. In recent years she has spearheaded a series of impassioned protests in famous Art Galleries, demonstrating against the Sackler family for their role in the opioid crisis.
