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The bit in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘60s film “Pierrot le Fou” where Belmondo asks maverick filmmaker Sam Fuller, playing himself, to give him a precise definition of cinema has been quoted within an inch of its life. So, to preface with a paraphrase of Reagan, here I go again. Quoth Fuller: “Film is like a battleground … It’s love, hate, action, …

Returning to the Lido a year after launching The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold is back at the Venice Film Festival with her latest feature as director, the Amanda Seyfried-starring The Testament of Ann Lee. World premiering in competition Monday afternoon, the movie received a 15 1/2-minute ovation. After the screening at the Sala Grande was met with enthusiasm and more than …

The Venice Film Festival hosted a world premiere on Monday afternoon for Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, delivering something close to a religious experience. The audience responded to the film, which stars Amanda Seyfried as founder of the radical religious sect the Shakers, with raptrous applause, and a 15-minute standing ovation. Seyfried wipes back tears as the house …

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 …

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 …

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 …