Blessed Child

Name: Blessed Child
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 17, 2020
Duration: 74 min
Rating: 54

2020

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| Release Date (Streaming): July 17, 2020 | Not Rated

Summary: More than a decade after leaving the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (the "Moonies"), through a trove of never before seen footage from within the church and extraordinary home videos of her family's upbringing alongside Reverend Moon and his disciples, filmmaker Cara Jones attempts to finally break free from the religious cultMore than a decade after leaving the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (the "Moonies"), through a trove of never before seen footage from within the church and extraordinary home videos of her family's upbringing alongside Reverend Moon and his disciples, filmmaker Cara Jones attempts to finally break free from the religious cult which dominated her childhood. Blessed Child is one daughter's attempt to unpack the legacy of the decisions her parents made while challenging assumptions - hers and ours - about cults and family.… Expand

Director: Cara Jones

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 74 min

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IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jul 14, 2020

It spreads itself too wide and too shallow, and leaves us wishing that we might have seen more of the journey that has come to define Jones’ adult life: The path to starting a family of her own. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jul 14, 2020

Filmmaker Cara Jones offers a poignant testament to the baggage and insecurities hounding her own life. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jul 16, 2020

Jones’s former affiliation presumably helped with access; adherents seem to trust her, and some clips are credited to the church. It also gives her a complicated, at times surprisingly sympathetic outlook on the cult. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Jul 17, 2020

The film is a little too scattershot for its own good, which becomes especially frustrating when some of these detours actually come across as potentially being far more interesting than the central narrative thread. Read full review

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