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Movie Review: In ‘Testament of Ann Lee,’ a Blazing Amanda Seyfried Can Make You Believe Anything
Amanda Seyfried delivers a career-best performance portraying Ann Lee, the 18th-century Shaker leader whose visions and grief reshaped her religious sect amid upheaval.
- Recently, Amanda Seyfried headlines Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee, a musical biopic featuring William Rexer's 70mm cinematography.
- Ann Lee, 18th-century Shaker leader, emerged from Manchester, England, as a spiritual figure who reported visions and led the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing to New York, United States.
- The film stages its story through a musical built from Shaker music and rituals, with Daniel Blumberg, composer, Celia Rowlson-Hall, choreographer, and William appearing in musical sequences.
- Reviewers praise Amanda Seyfried's career-best, raw performance while the Motion Picture Association rated the Searchlight Pictures release R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and bloody images.
- The film highlights the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing's decline, noting they once numbered thousands but now have exactly three adherents, amid violent eruptions and Revolutionary War risks, as depicted in the story.
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See Exclusive Behind the Scenes Images of the 1700s-Era Sets From ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
Production designer Sam Bader tells AD how the religious group's villages and beautifully crafted furniture were recreated for the new biopic of their founder starring Amanda Seyfried
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Movie Review: In ‘Testament of Ann Lee,’ a blazing Amanda Seyfried can make you believe anything
“The Testament of Ann Lee,” a sometimes punishing look at the turbulent life of 18th century Shaker leader Ann Lee, is definitely not for everyone.
·United States
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‘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 team behind "The Brutalist" returns for another, possibly even better epic about someone coming to America and building a church.
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