Amanda Seyfried was overcome with emotion as her new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” directed by Mona Fastvold, shook Venice up with a 15-minute ovation – topping “Frankenstein” as the longest of the festival so far Co-writer Brady Corbet worked the crowd while a visibly emotional Seyfried pumped her fists in the air as the cheers and applause stretched …
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Filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet got candid about the challenges of independent cinema while at the Venice Film Festival with their sweeping musical drama “The Testament of Ann Lee.” Their latest collaboration — directed by Fastvold, who co-wrote the script with Corbet — explores the founding leader of the Shakers, a radical religious movement known for worshipping through ecstatic …
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Amanda Seyfried tackled a tall task by stepping into the shoes and strict religious beliefs of Shakers founder Ann Lee for her new film, The Testament of Ann Lee, which is not quite a musical nor a straightforward biopic. The film’s writer and co-director Mona Fastvold fielded an obvious question during today’s Venice Film Festival press conference: Why Amanda? “Amanda …
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The last time Amanda Seyfried was at the Venice Film Festival to premiere a film was in 2017 for “First Reformed,” playing a parishioner in modern day New York. For her latest trip to the Lido, she’s gone back almost 300 years but has been upped to full-blown religious leader. In “The Testament of Ann Lee,” premiering in Competition on …
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