Director Mona Fastvold’s new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” features actor Amanda Seyfried in the titular role: the ...
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A haunting portrait of the woman who founded the Shakers

Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker movement, was proclaimed the female Christ by her followers. The film depicts her ...
Many characteristics of Shaker life and belief set them apart from other Protestants, but their name derives from one of the ...
As Ann Lee flees Europe, her religion evolves and becomes the inspiration for American design today - a journey captured in the film's visual language.
Despite their surface similarities, David and The Testament Of Ann Lee present opposite views of religious belief.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
US actress Amanda Seyfried plays the title role in 'The Testament of Ann Lee' Norwegian director Mona Fastvold wanted to rescue the memory of early feminist Anne Lee 'The Testament of Ann Lee' cast ...