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Green star Letting Go of God

don't miss! documentary United States, 2008 | 130 min. | Dir. Julia Sweeney

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Letting Go of God It's rare to come out of a movie feeling both good about the world and that you've been told the truth. Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God is the red-headed actress's one-woman show about turning from Catholic to atheist, though she prefers to call herself a "naturalist." What it's really about is the awakening of a critical consciousness. Sweeney uses the tools of every great thinker—curiosity and books—and the results are revelatory. The stage monologue is filmed and performed so smoothly that the live and movie audiences feel united by the end, but more importantly, some of Sweeney's insights reach the heights of the paragon of the form, the great, questing, poetic, one-woman vehicle written by Jane Wagner and performed by Lily Tomlin, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. That title could apply here, too. (Sweeney and producer Maria Burton scheduled to attend.) By Jen Graves

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