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The movie poster for "The Testament of Ann Lee." It features a picture of the actress who plays Ann Lee in costume reaching above her as part of dance.

The Testament of Ann Lee: Haunting Portrait of Shaker Devotion

I went into this film expecting a biographical thriller — something that would frame Ann Lee as an experimental woman ahead of her time who embraced ideas we might now recognize as modern feminism and was persecuted by society for those beliefs. Instead, the film is about a pious, devout woman … who was still persecuted by society for expressing her spirituality in a different way.