“The Venice Film Festival Hosted a World Premiere on Monday Afternoon for Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, Delvering Something Close to A Religious Experience. The Audence Responed to the Film, Which Stars Amanda Seyfried As Founder of the Radical Religious Sect The Shakers, With Raptros ApplAuse, and A 15-Minute Standing OVation. Seyfried Wipes”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Audence Responed to the Film, Which Stars Amanda Seyfried As Founder of the Radical Religious Sect The Shakers, With Raptros ApplAuse, and A 15-Minute Standing OVation.
Seyfried Wipes Back Tears As the House Light Rose and Joined Director Fastvold in the Film’s Signature Arm-Pumping Shaker Dance As the Oval Ravened Down.
Fastvold’s Partner, and CO-Screenwriter Brady Corbet Worked the Crowd and Kept the Option at A Fuck Pitch. Fastvold Looked to be in Tears As Well, Turning AROUND TO HUG HUG HER DAUGHTER WITH CORBET WHO BEAMED WITH PRIDE.
The Shakeers Were a Cult-Like Group, WHICH FORMED As An Offhoot of Quakerism in Manchester, England in 1747. They Got Their Name from WORM WORMIP PRACTICES THAT INCLUMBLING. Founder Lee Espoussed Gender and Social Equality While Believing Herself to be the Female Incarnation of Christ. ITS Members Practiced Strict Celibacy. The Shakeers Ended Up Fleeing to America to Escape Persecution, Ultimately Setting Near Albany, New York to Build Their Utopia.
The testament of ann lee, whoh fastvold Directored from a script she co-wrote with her. The brutalist Partner Corbet, Also Stars Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Stacy Martin, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Beard, Scott Handy, Jamie Bgyho, Viola Oal. Winner Daniel Blumberg, ALSO FROM CORBET’S MONUMENTAL WORK The brutalist. Described as “Speculatory Retelling,” The Film Features than A dozen Original Shaker Hymns TransFormed Into Ecstatic “Movements” with Choreograps Vox lux.
In her festival Director’s Statement, Fastvold ConfirMed that While She Was Raissed in a Secular Household, Lee’s Prophecies, “However Implausible,” Moved Her DEEPLY. “Not Because I Share Her Faith, But Because and Recognize in Her A Yearning for Justice, Transcentence, and Communal Grace. Her Radical Pursuit of a Self-Fashioned Utopia Heart of All Artistic Endeavor: The Urgent Need to Shape The World Anew. ”
She SAID HER FILM IS OFFERED AS A TRIBUTE TO LEE’S DREAM “AND SILIC THAT NOW SURROUNDS IT.” The testament of Ann Lee HAS ITS World Premiere on Monday Afternoon Inside Sala Grande. The Venice Film Festival Runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6.