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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I can understand being brought to your knees': Amanda Seyfried on obsession, devotion and the joy of socks

Amanda Seyfried delivers a fearless, fever-pitch performance as Ann Lee in Mona Fastvold's heady, rapturous 18th-century musical biopic about the Shaking Quakers.
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from48 hills
1 week ago

Screen Grabs: Ann Lee won't take any of your crap - 48 hills

Several new films feature uncompromising female heroines; Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee portrays Ann Lee's ecstatic, celibate religious leadership.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Review: Ann Lee' is a bold look at a religious crusader

A music-infused, nonjudgmental biopic vividly depicts 18th-century Shaker founder Ann Lee with Amanda Seyfried's transcendent performance and intricate historical detail.
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fromIndieWire
1 month ago
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To Build Her 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' Filmmaker Mona Fastvold Had to Imagine Her Own Kind of Utopia

fromIndieWire
1 month ago
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To Build Her 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' Filmmaker Mona Fastvold Had to Imagine Her Own Kind of Utopia

fromVulture
2 months ago

The Testament of Ann Lee Goes Full Stomp-Clap

Mona Fastvold's third feature film is a historical musical starring Amanda Seyfried as the founder of the Shaker movement, an 18th-century religious sect that believed ecstatic dance (or shaking) was the most powerful form of worship. Our own critic called it "one of the strangest musicals ever made." Fastvold directed and co-wrote the film alongside her partner, Brady Corbet, whose strange period epic The Brutalist was one of last fall's most discussed and divisive films.
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