The Testament of Ann Lee—on 35mm

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The Testament of Ann Lee—on 35mm

Opens January 16: Presented on 35mm—Westchester Exclusive

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).

Please note that, due to the necessity of staffing additional projectionists to manage multiple 35mm screenings a day when we show a new release on 35mm, moving forward we’ll charge a premium ticket price for 35mm screenings of new releases like The Testament of Ann Lee.

"The free-range majesty and fine-grained, muddy-fingernailed detail of Fastvold’s film, though, is entirely its own thing: like Ann, I was left wobbly and breathless by its grandeur and nerve."
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
"The ultimate brilliance of Fastvold’s movie, which remains without question for all of its peaks and valleys, is that it has the courage to reimagine the essence of belonging itself; to see it not as something we find, but rather as something that we create together."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire


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