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Anchoress is a 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby.It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. [1]The screenplay is partly based on accounts of an historical female anchorite, Christine Carpenter, who was walled into her anchorhold in a village church in Shere, Surrey, in southern England, in 1329.
Anchoress: Directed by Chris Newby. With Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Pete Postlethwaite. In the 14th-century, a visionary girl is to become an Anchoress, a walled-in recluse, so that she can live in the Virgin's house forever.
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- Drama
- Chris Newby
- 1995-05
May 12, 1995 · Anchoress. Unless the person involved is very holy indeed, there is always a degree of self-aggrandizement in sainthood. Chris Newby's "Anchoress," a film set in the Middle Ages, plays slyly with that notion in its story of a young woman who chooses to be walled up for the rest of her life. As she sets the last stone of her tomb into place and ...
Summaries. In the 14th-century, a visionary girl is to become an Anchoress, a walled-in recluse, so that she can live in the Virgin's house forever. Over time she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality. In 14th-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the ...
Anchoress portrays Christine, a 14-year old illiterate peasant girl, who finds herself drawn to a statue of the Virgin Mary. She soon enters the stern life of a female mystic/recluse, in part ...
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- Chris Newby
- Drama
- Natalie Morse
Currently you are able to watch "Anchoress" streaming on Kanopy for free. Synopsis A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.
- 108 min
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73 likes. Review by Slig001 ★★★. As the title suggests, this film focuses on an Anchoress; a woman who has chosen to live her life sealed into a cell in order to focus on prayer and contemplation. Apparently this was a real practice, mainly carried out in Medieval times. The Anchoress in this film is Christina Carpenter, a young girl who ...
