'The Testament of Ann Lee' Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Charismatic Prophet in Shaker Musical

"The past is a foreign country," wrote novelist L.P. Hartley. "They do things differently there." Viewers might heed those words when approaching "The Testament of Ann Lee," for director Mona Fastvold certainly has. A work of unshakable, near-pyrrhic zeal about a subject defined by the same qualities, this intimate and maximalist musical resembles little else at this year's Venice Film Festival, or in the cinema of 2025. Fastvold fuses form with function to meet an 18th-century religious leader on her own terms, delivering a thrillingly modern incantation of an antiquated . . .