The Testament of Ann Lee is going to be the December and awards season wildcard, and we can promise you that much The film has been a bit divisive when it was making the festival rounds, with some people absolutely loving it and others walking out of the screening However, walking out of a screening isn't[...]
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A movie like The Testament of Ann Lee is a weird little movie sneaking into theaters on a limited release on Christmas Day.
The film is being billed as a "historical drama musical film" where the music is inspired by the real music from the Shakers religion The reactions from the festival audiences have been all over[...]
Mona Fastvold's upcoming film, The Testament of Ann Lee, intends to revisit the life of Ann Lee, the British-born founder of the Shakers, an 18th-century religious leader whose worship was characterized by song, rhythm, and a kind of holy tremor that scandalized her contemporaries And rather than file her into the usual biopic drawer, Fastvold[...]


