Alan Mattli’s review published on Letterboxd:
ZFF 2022 #17
A tale of two epidemics, one exacerbated by malicious political disinterest, one cynically engineered by the economic "opportunities" created by those same politics of disinterest – both connected by Poitras and Nan Goldin through what they have to say about the social function of art: it can be a beautiful vessel for free expression, revolution, and communal love, or it can be, through no fault of its own, become a screen for greed and callous violence to hide behind. I've struggled with Poitras in the past, but this is searing documentary filmmaking, and I love that she trusts her viewers to hear the conversation going on between the film's two halves themselves.