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The Testament of Ann Lee | dir. Mona Fastvold (2025)

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I don't think I have ever seen a film like The Testament of Ann Lee.

As an ex-Christian (read lapsed catholic, ambivalent atheist & neopagan etc.)

This film just feels like an act of devotional magic/mysticism. Like it's not just trying to convert you. It's trying to express what spiritual ecstasy means. It's trying to summon its possibility inside of you.

You don't have to be down with the Shakers to see that this just an incredible feat of musical filmmaking. It's a fantastically bold piece of art. I hope both the religious and non-religious can watch the film and feel that spark inside them without trying to expel or rationalise it. This film should be experienced first, explained later. Debating the literal text would be such a fruitless exercise.

This is a chance to feel.

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The World to Come (2020)

Directed by Mona Fastvold and based on Jim Shepard's short story, The World to Come stars Vanessa Kirby as Abigail, a farmer's wife in 1850s rural New York still grieving the loss of her child, and Katherine Waterston as Tallie, her new restless, vivid and impossible to ignore neighbour. Their friendship deepens across seasons into something neither has a name for, in a time and place that offers women almost no room to live. The film unfolds through Abigail's diary entries, quiet and precise as the landscape around them. The World to Come premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. It sits alongside Carol and Portrait of a Lady on Fire as one of cinema's most beautifully restrained sapphic love stories.

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Daniel Blumberg - The Testament of Ann Lee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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TOP 5 FIRST-TIME WATCHES OF APRIL 2026

1. THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025, dir. Mona Fastvold) 2. LES ENFANTS VONT BIEN (2025, dir. Nathan Ambrosioni) 3. LA CONDITION (2025, dir. Jérôme Bonnell) 4. VIVACIOUS LADY (1938, dir. George stevens) 5. KAMOME DINER (2006, dir. Naoko Ogigami)

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the ones i missed: The Testament of Ann Lee

SCORE: 9/10 GENRE: Historical Musical DIRECTOR: Mona Fastvold

ok yeah I get why people were mad this didn't get any Oscar nominations this was phenomenal.

this was a stunning experience in every sense of the word. beautiful visuals, costumes, sets, choreography and of course beautiful music. the soundtrack to this film is phenomenal and i am so frustrated that it got blanked for "Diane Warren's yearly totally not corrupt nomination".

also, if they weren't gonna nominate Chase Infiniti for Actress, Amanda Seyfried was right there. In fact, I'd argue she's better than Buckley was in Hamnet, and almost certainly would've made a better nomination than Kate Hudson or even (sorry Bugonia stans) Emma Stone.

overall, brilliant film, ignore what the Oscars did to it.

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