MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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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
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
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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