Amanda Seyfried Instagram – Inside Club Ciné’s intimate screening of The Testament of Ann Lee – Friday 6 February.
Club Ciné-after-dark – A room full of creatives, artists, actors, filmmakers, photographers, designers and writers, gathering for a story few of us had heard before – and leaving quietly fizzed by how radical it felt.
Thank you to @giorgioarmani for supporting this season of screenings and independent film.
Ann Lee: erased from history, uneducated, uncompromising, visionary. A woman who crossed oceans, defied hierarchy and built one of the most radical utopian communities in American history. Not a biopic. Not a history lesson. Something stranger, bolder, more sensual. Cinema as belief system.
The film is rigorous, demanding and deeply timely – but the energy in the room was anything but sombre. Champagne flowing. Hugs in the aisles. Mic drop moments. A deeply sexy bar buzzing before and after. A crowd happy to see one another, argue, flirt, debate, and sit with something that challenged them.
Amanda Seyfried slipped next door, quietly taking the front row at a screening of The Housemaid. Fifteen minutes before the end, she jumped up as the credits rolled and surprised the cinema – delighting film fans who had no idea she was sitting among them the whole time. MOTHER.
Afterwards, a raw, generous conversation with Mona Fastvold, Amanda Seyfried and Daniel Blumberg – about belief, creativity, sound as cinema, collaboration without rules, and why Ann Lee’s story lands harder now than ever.
Feedback cards filled. Glasses clinked. Conversations and drinks spilled into the night.
The Testament of Ann Lee is released in the UK and Ireland on February 27. It’s out in the US now.
The full screening report lands on CLUBCINE.SUBSTACK.COM later this week.
The full Q&A conversation coming soon on YouTube and Instagram Reels.
This is what it feels like when cinema becomes a meeting point again. BOOM.
Photographs by @oliverholms
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