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Full Circle (1993 film)

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Donna Read narrates the movie, which centers around her friends in Montreal discussing Paganism and the Goddess religions. This documentary focuses on the present as it meditates on the questions of climate change and what that means for future generations. The film is interspersed with interviews
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James R Martin of J R Media Inc considers the documentary “well-made” and says it “offers an important body of information that cannot be ignored.” However, he cautions the film has the tendency to generalize. He notes “assumptions based on these ideas become somewhat vague in places.”
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has a rating of 8.8 out of 10 on IMDb. Glenys Livingstone of PaGaian Cosmology “highly recommends” the film and says “this series as an educative resource for our times, for knowing more of our human story: so that we may orient ourselves more fully, and possibly flourish."
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and a Summer Solstice celebration in Wisconsin. When talking about the Goddess religions, Charlene Spretnak summarizes the heart of movie saying "what we would really like to get across is reverence for the Earth and there is divinity in this life."
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gives the film similar criticism. The author writes of the film as “massive and beautiful,” but not without fault, arguing the spiritual movement itself lacks focus of what it really believes. The author calls out parts of
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Director Donna Read and her team travel to eight different countries looking at the emergence of women's spirituality and Goddess movements. They conduct interviews and show footage of rituals. In
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In 2016, Donna Read was awarded the Saga Award by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) for her films including
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completes Read's trilogy of documentaries focusing on women's spirituality in the Western World at the end of the 20th century, the
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critique saying there was “a lot more hippy stuff” in Full Circle, but “it was less insufferable than the second one,
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argues for a world where embracing a reverence for the Earth can begin to heal it.
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they visit Montreal, Canada, the American West Coast, Greece, England, and Mexico.
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Women and Myth (2016-04-14). "Donna Read Wins 2016 Saga Award".
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JRM (2011-12-02). "Women and Spirituality The Goddess Trilogy".
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On popular movie rating site Letterboxd, a reviewer echoes the
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Starhawk
National Film Board of Canada
Women and Spirituality
Goddess Remembered
The Burning Times
Full Circle
Margot Adler
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Matthew Fox
Donna Read
Charlene Spretnak
Starhawk
Luisah Teish
Feminism portal
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documentary
National Film Board of Canada
Goddess movement
feminist Wicca
new religious movements
Goddess Remembered
The Burning Times
Starhawk
Charlene Spretnak
Luisha Teish
Matthew Fox
Margot Adler

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