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Film round-up: January 27, 2023
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, The Fabelmans, January, Unwelcome
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed
CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed (18)
Directed by Laura Poitras
★★★★
THIS powerful and haunting documentary by Oscar winning film-maker Laura Poitras is the epic story of artist and activist Nan Goldin, her trailblazing career and her endless fight to hold one of America’s most powerful families to account for the opioid crisis.
It is a compilation of Goldin’s groundbreaking photography, slide-shows, intimate interviews and rare footage, shot by Goldin herself, of her protests against the Sacklers who patronise the arts but whose fortune derives from the profits of Purdue Pharma, and its product, the addictive opiate Oxycontin, whose misuse sparked an epidemic.
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