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.
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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 ...
The trailer for the film "The Testament of Ann Lee" is riveting and unsettling — just as the celibate Shakers were to the ...
Far more than a furniture style, Shakerism represented an all-consuming belief system rooted in celibacy, community, and ...
Despite their surface similarities, David and The Testament Of Ann Lee present opposite views of religious belief.
Ann Lee was the founder of the 18th-century religious sect known as the Shakers. The Testament of Ann Lee depicts her true ...
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 ...
On Feb. 29, 1736, Ann Lee, the spiritual leader of the Shakers, was born. During her lifetime, she would lead her people to longevity and prosperity. More than 250 years later, the Shaker Heritage ...
With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the ...
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 ...