Mona Fastvold News & Updates

How A Utopian Society Broke Out In Song & Dance: Mona Fastvold On The Making Of ‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ – Crew Call Podcast

This holiday season, Amanda Seyfried is double the force to be reckon with as an unhinged wealthy ho...

Dec 29, 2025 • Yahoo

Mona Fastvold’s ‘The World to Come’ to Open Rotterdam’s Summer Edition

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mona Fastvold's "The World to ...

May 18, 2021 • Yahoo

‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ Director Mona Fastvold Calls For More Movies About Female Icons As Star Amanda Seyfried Praises Sense Of Community On Set

Director Mona Fastvold sets down in Venice today with musical Golden Lion contender The Testament Of...

Aug 31, 2025 • Deadline.com

‘The Testament of Ann Lee' Trailer: Mona Fastvold Delivers Another Epic About an American Iconoclast

The last time screenwriters Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet collaborated, on the Corbet-directed "The...

Nov 06, 2025 • MSN

Mona Fastvold Recalls the First Review of Her Own Work She Ever Read — It Was from IndieWire

IndieWire Honors: The "Testament of Ann Lee" director thanked IndieWire for supporting her throughou...

Dec 07, 2025 • IndieWire

Mona Fastvold Knows Her Way Around a Chair

Deep in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through an old bank façade, is Gallery...

Dec 22, 2025 • The New Yorker

Interview: Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold Talk The Moody Sundance Discovery ‘The Sleepwalker’

Sundance is a place for discovery, where new talent can shine in front of an audience hungry for rev...

Jan 24, 2014 • IndieWire

The Testament of Ann Lee: Read the screenplay for Mona Fastvold's take on a mover and a shaker

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season's most talke...

Jan 05, 2026 • MSN

Mona Fastvold on Making ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ “Quite Different From a Traditional Musical”

Amanda Seyfried stars in Fastvold's "musical and movement piece" about Shakers founder Ann Lee. By K...

Dec 16, 2025 • The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Teaser Trailer: Mona Fastvold Delivers Another Epic About an American Iconoclast

Writer/director Fastvold and co-screenwriter Brady Corbet follow "The Brutalist" with an even more a...

Nov 06, 2025 • IndieWire

‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Director Mona Fastvold Signs With Magna Studios

The Norwegian filmmaker is also known for co-writing the 2024 Oscar-winning 'The Brutalist' with her...

Nov 09, 2025 • The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Stars As Irrepressible Religious Leader In Mona Fastvold’s Musical Epic

The first trailer for Mona Fastvold's historical drama The Testament of Ann Lee has been released. A...

Nov 06, 2025 • Yahoo

Casey Affleck and Director Mona Fastvold on The World to Come

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site ...

Feb 21, 2021 • Collider

Mona Fastvold Debuts ‘Discipline’ for Miu Miu Women’s Tales

For director Mona Fastvold, “Discipline” started with a Miu Miu dress. A specific dress: the ple...

Feb 13, 2026 • Women's Wear Daily

Amanda Seyfried’s Miu Miu Micro Miniskirt Rides High on Her Thighs

Amanda Seyfried is once again turning heads, this time swapping red-carpet glamor for laidback, off-...

Sep 08, 2026 • Yahoo

‘The World To Come’ Director Mona Fastvold On The Romantic Frontier Drama: “I Had A Lot Of Freedom To Make It My Own” – Contenders Film

Norwegian director Mona Fastvold's The World to Come takes her into frontier country, as two put-upo...

Jan 24, 2021 • Yahoo

Mona Fastvold interview: 'The Testament of Ann Lee'

The filmmaker opens up about her "wild, peculiar, incredible" genre-defying musical....

Dec 15, 2025 • GoldDerby on MSN

‘The Testament of Ann Lee' Director Mona Fastvold on Her Warning to Amanda Seyfried: ‘It's Going to Be a Very Uncomfortable Experience'

Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet's daughter Ada has attended seven editions of the Venice Film Festiva...

Aug 22, 2025 • MSN

‘The Testament of Ann Lee' director Mona Fastvold: ‘She was America's first feminist'

While Mona Fastvold was on the awards circuit last season as the cowriter and producer of The Brutal...

Dec 15, 2025 • MSN

Venice Film Festival Unveils 2025 Lineup: Park Chan-wook, Benny Safdie, Mona Fastvold, and More

The Venice Film Festival is back on the Lido for its 82nd edition, kicking off August 27-September 6...

Jul 22, 2025 • MSN

EXCLUSIVE: Miu Miu Women’s Tales Latest Director Is Mona Fastvold

MIU MIU'S NEW TALES: Mona Fastvold will be revealed Wednesday as the director of the 31st installmen...

Jan 27, 2026 • Yahoo

Miu Miu Debuts Mona Fastvold’s Latest Film at New York Fashion Week

From left: Hailey Gates, Mona Fastvold, and Celia Rowlson-Hall. Courtesy of Miu Miu On a cold Thursd...

Feb 13, 2026 • W magazine

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“Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.” So wrote the spectacula...

Jan 20, 2014 • Filmmaker

Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet on ‘The Testament of Ann Lee,' That ‘Brutalist' AI Controversy and What's Next

Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold have been here before - quite recently, in fact. The partners in life...

Nov 24, 2025 • MSN

Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold's ‘Testament of Ann Lee' Sells to Searchlight After Venice Debut

Amanda Seyfried's sweeping musical drama "The Testament of Ann Lee" has found distribution after its...

Oct 15, 2025 • MSN

The Testament of Stacy Martin: Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet’s Go-To Star on Female Leaders, Northern Accents — and the Power of Ann Lee

The actress has known independent cinema's hottest power couple for 10 years, and is finally getting...

Dec 16, 2025 • The Hollywood Reporter

Searchlight Acquires Mona Fastvold’s ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’

Searchlight Pictures has acquired writer-director Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament Of Ann Lee,” ...

Sep 30, 2025 • TheWrap

How ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ director Mona Fastvold created a ‘utopia’ on set

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Making a period epic is always...

Jan 06, 2026 • Yahoo

Saoirse Ronan, Tessa Thompson Movies, Mona Fastvold’s ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ With Amanda Seyfried Set for London Film Fest Competition

George Mackay and Callum Turner's Venice-bound 'Rose of Nevada' will also compete at this year's BFI...

Aug 21, 2025 • The Hollywood Reporter

Amanda Seyfried's "one-of-a-kind" historical drama lands new UK streaming home

A career-best performance from the Mean Girls star....

May 14, 2026 • Digital Spy