Ann Lee’s testament director asks for more films on female icons
The director Mona Fastvold is established today in Venice with Musical Golden Lion Consender Ann Lee’s TestamentStarring Amanda Seyfried as the leading religious holder of the 18th century and founder of the Shaker movement.
Fastvold said that his desire to explore Lee’s life was born in part of his perception of the way of leading the form of the religious leader and how he intervened with his own style in the set.
“Obviously, it is interesting to talk about female leadership at this time, but I think that for myself, personally, trying to make a film, or create a work of art in a business that is very dominated by men … I am always trying to create a culture in the set, a community in the set that is a bit different, a culture that is nutritious, which is friendly, that has a lot of empathy,” he said.
“In the story of Ann Lee, who really spoke to me, the way he is leading, although they raised me in a secular home, without any relationship with religion. I do not prescribe Anne Lee’s ideas, but I do believe that the way he carries the empathy and kindness and wanting to create a space where they were all the same, men, people, people of color, with empathy now”.
Fastvold suggested later that he had also grown up for the desire to tell stories about women who had made a difference throughout history.
“How many stories have we seen about large -scale male icons, how many stories, again and again. We can’t see a story about a woman like this? The only thing I could think was Jeanne D’Arc. He just wanted her to have this space,” said the director.
Questioned about her choice of nominated actress and Golden Globe, Seyfried (Mank, the discouragement) for the paper, Fastvold said she admired her strength.
“Amanda has a lot of power. She is really strong. She is a wonderful mother. She is a bit crazy, so she knew she could access those things. I could access the kindness, kindness, tenderness and could also access this power and this madness,” said the director.
“I think at our age, there is something really exciting in exploring the combination of all that … I saw that Amanda had all that, and that she was ready to really enter all her strength.”
Born in the north of the English city of Manchester in 1736, Ann Lee was the charismatic leader of the religious movement that became known as the Shakers, for its ecstatic song and dance that involved tremors.
Persecuted in England for its strong form of worship and challenging the doctrines of the established church, he went to the United States in 1774 with a small band of followers, where he continued his mission of turning people into the Shaker movement.
The Hollywood Seyfried star, who has previously talked about the challenges of adopting an accent from the north of English, as well as achieving singing scenes in the film, praised the sense of community created by Fastvold.
“It was such a cheerful experience, especially the way it was directed by Mona, and the way we all feel, almost like in the Shaker movement. We all had a job to do, and we all felt very the same. He felt very driven by the community,” Seyfried said.
“The experience was so incredible … the reason I could face these challenges as an artist, that there were many … It was because I felt completely protected, sustained and surrounded by people who love people, and in a place where everyone knew the value of this, to do this and understood the vision of Mona,” he added.
Ann Lee’s Testament It is the last collaboration of the powerful indie couple Fastvold and Brady Corbet, who were in Venice last year with the winner of the latter’s Oscar The brutalist.
Seyfried, Fastvold, Corbet, who co-written the script, joined the stage for choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall and composer Daniel Blumberg, who won an Oscar for his majestic The brutalist score.
“There is an incredible amount of beautiful Shaker hymns in which we could resort,” said Blumberg in the process of writing the music for the movie. “We simply listen to them all, and that was really beautiful to be together and then develop them in what you hear in the movie.”
The new feature film is produced by its producer Andrew Morrison in Kaplan Morrison with Joshua Hornsfield in Inumine Films and Iktória Petranyi in Proton Cinema. Charades manages international sales, while CAA Middle Finance is taking care of North America.