I’ve Never Seen Anything Like The Testament of Ann Lee
Cristiana Gigina
Photo: Venice Film Festival Sure to go down in history as one of the strangest musicals ever made, Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee tells the story of the founding leader of the Shaker faith through reimagined spirituals and hybrid dance sequences mixing traditional and modern moves. That might sound vaguely experimental and abstract, but the film is the opposite of aloof — it seeks to stir us, to immerse us in the sensibility of its distant era. Handsomely produced and shot on 70-mm.,
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