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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.. 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.
- Paul Breuls
- Judith Stanley-Smith, Christine Watkins
- Natalie Morse
- Chris Newby
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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- Chris Newby
- Not Rated
- Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox
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 ...
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Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (a walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an Anchoress in 1325, the film follows Christine as she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth ...
Anchoress. Passion for the Virgin Mary leads a young woman (Natalie Morse) to become a walled-in recluse at her 14th-century church.
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- Chris Newby
- Drama
- Natalie Morse
Anchoress is a little-known film that explores one a significant expression of spiritual devotion—that of female anchorites—during the high middle ages.Directed by Chris Newby, the film was released in the United Kingdom in 1993 and received generally good reviews from critics and the small audience that saw the film.
72 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 ...
