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From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee® Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist).
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00:00For those new here, who are unaccustomed to a woman preacher...
00:14Come nearer to me.
00:26Christ's spirit first appeared as a man.
00:30God has reappeared to fulfill the promise of the second coming.
00:35As a woman, our mother Anne.
00:41I have seen a tolls of people waiting for us in America.
00:47We will plant great victory with deep and solid roots.
00:51We are so few, yet we have lost so many.
01:06You will go out and make our presence known.
01:08Anne Lee's new legend is the spirit of witchcraft.
01:15I cannot preach without being harassed.
01:18May not run!
01:19God, run!
01:25War time has come.
01:30Legend has it, there appeared a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet.
01:39Anne Lee.
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