Following its limited theatrical release Dec. 25, director Mona Fastvold’s epic historical drama “The Testament of Ann Lee” ...

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

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

How did a charismatic but impoverished British woman become the leader of the progressive religious sect known as "the ...

Mother Ann, as Lee was called, was one of history’s few female faith leaders, which is probably why we don’t know that much ...

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 ...

Mona Fastvold’s set on “The Testament of Ann Lee” is much like the world of her subject, the founder of the Shaker religious movement in the 18th century: Immersive, wildly ambitious, utopian even, ...

With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the ...

The Shakers were a utopian, egalitarian religious group, originally an offshoot of the Quaker community in eighteenth-century England, whose adherents dedicated themselves to God by separating ...

An art exhibition about the Shakers, also known as The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, would naturally have furniture. The Institute of Contemporary Art has plenty: ladder ...