For Fastvold, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter (“The Brutalist”) and director, bringing Lee’s spiritual journey to the screen ...

Amanda Seyfried says no to sex in the dance-fueled film "The Testament of Ann Lee," which tells the real history behind the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mona Fastvold’s musical drama The Testament of Ann Lee stars Amanda Seyfried as the titular founder of the Shaker sect, a group ...

The most common reaction to The Testament of Ann Lee is to note that you’ve never seen a movie like it. True enough! It’s about the founding of the Shaker religious movement by the title character, an ...

Actress Amanda Seyfried invokes the adage rhythmically as the titular character in director Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of ...

Hundreds of visitors toured Shaker Village and its historic barn in New Gloucester, Maine, on Sunday during Open Farm Day. (Clarke Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (CN) — At its peak ...

During the mid-19th century, the Shakers were the largest and most successful utopian group in existence, with tight-knit communities scattered throughout the Northeast and in Kentucky. The religious ...

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 ...