Exactly a year ago today U.S. director Brady Corbet world premiered his post-World War Two epic The Brutalist in a Venice, in a screening that would begin the film’s journey to two Golden Globes and ...

Filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet got candid about the challenges of independent cinema while at the Venice Film Festival with their sweeping musical drama “The Testament of Ann Lee.” Their ...

Venice: "When I read a novel, I don't want to read a novel written by 100 executives. I want to read a novel by one novelist," said Corbet, who directed second-unit on his wife's period Shaker musical ...

Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee” tells the story, through hymnal music and choreography, of the founding leader of the Shakers as she attempts to create an ecstatic utopia. Fastvold and her ...

“It was quite a feat,” said Corbet at the official press conference, returning with Fastvold to Venice just a year after 2024’s award season darling “The Brutalist.” “As you can imagine, the elevator ...

The exhilaration of majestic cinema once again at the Venice Film Festival. Following last year's masterful The Brutalist (here is my 10/10 review), filmmakers Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold are back ...

Amanda Seyfried was overcome with emotion as her new movie “The Testament of Ann Lee,” directed by Mona Fastvold, shook up Venice Film Festival with a 15-minute ovation — topping “Frankenstein” as the ...

The festival audience gave rapturous applause, and a 15-minute standing ovation, to Mona Fastvold's period musical, which stars Seyfried as the founder of 18th-century religious movement the Shakers.

Amanda Seyfried in ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ William Rexer The Testament of Ann Lee, the latest feature from Mona Fastvold, launched at the Venice Film Festival this evening, and the notices are ...

“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 ...