Overview
- The film opens in select theaters on December 25 via Searchlight Pictures, following festival showings and pre-release features.
- Choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall developed a movement language with director Mona Fastvold and composer Daniel Blumberg to place dance at the center of the storytelling.
- Daniel Blumberg’s score reworks Shaker hymns and includes three original songs performed by Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman, and Thomasin McKenzie.
- Critics praise the choreography, large‑format visuals, and Seyfried’s lead turn, noting powerful yet respectful depictions of fervent faith and harrowing experiences.
- Coverage situates the story within Shaker history and beliefs, noting the sect’s ecstatic worship, celibacy, and near‑vanished membership, with RNS reporting Seyfried’s Golden Globe nomination for the role.