Filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet are clearly fascinated by ambition. They’re fascinated, too, by dreamers — difficult dreamers, brilliant but demanding people who have plans they must fulfill ...

Mona Fastvold’s musical drama The Testament of Ann Lee stars Amanda Seyfried as the titular founder of the Shaker sect, a group that worshipped via “ecstatic dancing” or shaking. Lee’s devout belief ...

Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, partners in life and filmmaking, are together honing a style that might be called “indie grandeur.” Mr. Corbet had considerable critical success last year with the 3 ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Amanda Seyfried acknowledges she knew little about Ann Lee, the 18th-century founder of the Shaker movement, before portraying her in “The Testament of Ann Lee,” a film ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Conducting refreshingly engaging interviews with top Hollywood stars. Based on the life of a bold spiritual leader in the 18th ...

A musical biopic fittingly composed of religious ballads, The Testament of Ann Lee chronicles the life of its eponymous 18th century religious leader, played with tremendous passion by Amanda Seyfried ...

Amanda Seyfried acknowledges she knew little about Ann Lee, the 18th-century founder of the Shaker movement, before portraying her in “The Testament of Ann Lee,” a film opening Christmas Day that ...

(RNS) — At first glance, the story of 18th-century Shaker founder Ann Lee may not seem like an intuitive choice for a movie musical. The religious movement leader’s life was punctuated by harrowing ...

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Amanda Seyfried stars in Fastvold's "musical and movement piece" about Shakers founder Ann Lee. By Kirsten Chuba Events Editor “I was anxious about the genre,” director Mona Fastvold admitted of her ...