Mona Fastvold’s film biography of a prophet of her times, a founder of a Christian sect which endures in some corners of New England to this day, suggests passion and historical detail — well, save for the fully furled sails of a speeding brig at sea — and some grammatically challenged blurbed endorsements from early reviews.

I stopped at a Shaker village in Maine some years back. Quakers who literally “quake?” Fascinating subject for a movie.

Christmas Day.