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fromThe Conversation
1 month agoPhilosophy
The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society - 250 years later, they're part of the sound of America
The Testament of Ann Lee portrays Ann Lee and Shaker worship through intense imagery, music, ecstatic dancing, and ritual, filmed partly at Hancock Shaker Village.
fromIndieWire
4 months agoFilm
'The Testament of Ann Lee' Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Singing Female Christ Figure in Mona Fastvold's Incredible Quasi-Musical About the Shaker Prophet
The Testament of Ann Lee portrays Ann Lee's Shaker movement as a rapturous, hymn-driven biopic that prioritizes ecstatic choreography and collective spiritual unity over lyrical content.
fromKqed
1 week agoEntrancing 'Testament of Ann Lee' Relays the Shakers' Saga in Song and Dance
A film about faith and other leaps, Mona Fastvold's remarkable The Testament of Ann Lee does not ask us to endorse or embrace the tenets of the 18th-century English sect called United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, aka Shaking Quakers, aka the Shakers. Given that an important principle of co-founder Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried) was celibacy, many viewers would find that a bridge too far.
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fromKqed
1 week agoEntrancing 'Testament of Ann Lee' Relays the Shakers' Saga in Song and Dance
As Vincent Minnelli and Bob Fosse artfully demonstrated, music and movement - song and dance - are powerful vehicles for not only conveying deep emotions but enrolling audiences in leaps of joy and amazement and flights of mind. Daring to dare is the sentiment at the heart of a movie musical, and the quality that moviegoers respond to. The Testament of Ann Lee isn't exactly a musical in the sense that the songs don't tell the story.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoOne of America's Most Iconic Early Religious Cults Is Brought to Life in a Beautiful New Movie. But Did They Really Dance ... Like That?
The Testament of Ann Lee functions as a docudrama using adapted Shaker hymns to evoke communal mystical worship rather than a conventional character-driven musical.
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