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Generation Wealth
For the past 25 years acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (TheQueen of Versailles, Thin, kids+money, #likeagirl) has travelled the world, documenting with ethnographic precision and an artist's sensitivity a vast range of cultural movements and moments. Yet, after so much seeking and searching, she realized that much of her work pointed at one uniting phenomenon: wealth culture. With her new film, Generation Wealth, she puts the pieces of her life's work together for in an incendiary investigation into the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen. Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff's edge. Generation Wealth, simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism and greed.
3 November 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 October 1949, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
10 August 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 April 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 September 1944, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
21 October 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 September 1956, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA
27 June 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 August 1941, London, England, UK
March 28, 1988 in Austin, Texas, USA
6 March 1926, New York City, New York, USA
7 March 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 March 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
3 September 1965, New York City, New York, USA
18 April 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 April 1970, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
August 30, 2018
But as in so much of this sprawling meditation-an odd mix where the heinously crass often outweighs the authentically beautiful-deep analysis is lacking.August 20, 2018
Generation Wealth feels incomplete and haunted.August 24, 2018
Generation Wealth falls victim to the very thing that it is attempting to critique, namely excess. Quite simply, there is too much stuff in here.October 13, 2018
The degree of difficulty here is off the charts, and the wildly uneven results only make the achievement of Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson all the more impressive.August 26, 2018
Greenfield's film is all over the place, and is more stream of consciousness than informative or even entertaining.July 27, 2018
Greenfield's titillating survey of America's grossest obsessions, from plastic surgery to porn, only flirts with economic and social context, mainly limiting itself to observation and personalization.October 09, 2018
The film is not so much a documentary about how greed and money are destroying society as it is an autobiographical look at Greenfield's obsession with the lifestyles of the rich and the famous.August 22, 2018
Bleak and compelling viewing.July 25, 2018
"Generation Wealth" feels like it's all over the place, and that, if most of its subjects are lacking in depth, the movie itself is open to the same criticism.July 25, 2018
If "Generation Wealth" has a message that empty acquisitiveness is bad, it delivers it, like the rest of her work, by showing, not telling.August 02, 2018
Despite having been a renowned photographer for more than a quarter-century, Greenfield here seems to have lost her focus.August 03, 2018
Scattered and self-indulgent, a career retrospective in search of a coherent theme.