Laura Poitras's Nan Goldin documentary powerfully balances biography with anti-Sackler activism
September 12, 2022 8:35 PM
The Art Newspaper
4 min read
Toronto International Film Festival
Opioid Crisis
Sackler family
Nan Goldin
Documentary
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, currently showing in Toronto, the Sacklers become a personification of the oppressive social order that cost many of Goldin's peers their lives
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