Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Making a period epic is always a demanding task, and those demands are even greater when you're doing it on an independent film ...

“Hamnet” and “The Testament of Ann Lee” screened during this year’s Palm Springs International Film Festival, and following each of the films, directors Chloé Zhao and Mona Fastvold, as well as “Ann ...

"The Testament of Ann Lee," directed by Mona Fastvold — partner of fellow director Brady Corbet, with whom she worked on "The Brutalist" and who co-wrote this historical musical epic with her — ...

From left: Hailey Gates, Mona Fastvold, and Celia Rowlson-Hall. Courtesy of Miu Miu On a cold Thursday night in New York, the distinct smell of Miu Miu-branded popcorn filled the air of the ornate, ...

Mona Fastvold’s musical drama The Testament of Ann Lee stars Amanda Seyfried as the titular founder of the Shaker sect, a group that worshipped via “ecstatic dancing” or shaking. Lee’s devout belief ...

Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee is, without hesitation, one of the best films of 2025 — and it’s finally come to Nashville here in the front bit of ’26. It’s a biography, a legend, an ...