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Review of Ann Lee’s Testament – A Surprisingly Strange Portrait of an Extremely Ecstatic Shaker Leader | movie

‘oYour ordeal is worth it!” This is the shout-out from one of Mona Fastvold’s film stalwarts, who co-wrote The Brutalist with her partner in film, Brady Corbet. A fierce, passionate, shocking and sometimes disconcerting drama about Ann Lee, a historical figure who endured religious persecution as the leader of the fundamentalist Shaker movement in 18th-century […]