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Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events. (R, 137 min.)
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From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist). [Searchlight Pictures]
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott, Stacy Martin, Matthew Beard, Scott Handy, Viola Prettejohn, Jamie Bogyo, David Cale
Director: Mona Fastvold
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Musical
"Watching it with your whole being, it becomes real to you too."
— Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
"One of the best and most daring films I got to see over the past year."
— Radheyan Simonpillai, CBC Radio
"This is a transcendent cinematic vision you can dance to. By God, it’s inspired."
— Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle
"It’s unlike any other ever put on screen, but definitely a song-and-dance show at regular, exhilarating intervals."
— Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle
"The frenzied, lustful energy of the film’s first half makes it one of the most thrilling cinematic experiences of the year."
— Caroline Siede, AV Club
"The Testament of Ann Lee is a wild, wonderful tribute to one hell of a woman and Seyfried is the glowing flame at its heart."
— Nick Howells, London Evening Standard
"Delivered in a style that evokes its historical moment while also cutting across time to the present, it lands with the enthralling, incantatory force of urgent prayer."
— Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal
"The Testament of Ann Lee is unimaginable with any other actress—but then again, it’s unimaginable, period, a movie that takes big chances in a culture that, most days, seems allergic to them."
— Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
"The Testament of Ann Lee is primarily a film about the pull and power of belief. Delivered in a style that evokes its historical moment while also cutting across time to the present, it lands with the enthralling, incantatory force of urgent prayer."
— Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal
