Films

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE

Starts Friday, March 13

(R) USA/UK – 2 hr 17 min  
2025 · d. Mona Fastvold
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Starring Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson

Devout, magnetic Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried) travels from England to pre-Revolutionary America to found the sect known as the Shakers, but their belief in equality and their feverish, ecstatic worship draws charges of witchcraft from the authorities. Staging more than a dozen reimagined Shaker hymns in extravagant musical sequences, this historical drama from the team behind The Brutalist was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a most unusual musical and genuinely remarkable movie…Fastvold has grabbed hold of something genuinely singular.”