Everything about The Testament of Ann Lee feels like an ever-escalating iteration of The Onion ’s old Stan Kelly cartoon in which a “sicko” standing in the window goes, “Yes … ha ha ha … yes!!” Now that the trailer is out, there’s not a “Yes … ha ha ha … yes!!” loud enough. Mona Fastvold’s third feature film is a historical musical starring Amanda Seyfried as the founder of the Shaker movement, an 18th-century religious sect that believed ecstatic dance (or shaking) was the most powerful form of worship. Our own critic called it “one of the strangest musicals ever made.”

Fastvold directed and co-wrote the film alongside her partner, Brady Corbet, whose strange period epic The Brutalist was one of last fall’s most discussed and divisive films. The duo write all their films toget

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