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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. Over time she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.
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- Chris Newby
- Not Rated
- Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox
May 12, 1995 · Roger Ebert May 12, 1995. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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 ...
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A film based on actual letters of a 14th-century Anchoress who walled herself up in a church to live in the Virgin's house. Christine Carpenter, a peasant girl, is the protagonist who awakens to her sensuality and spirituality in the medieval world of the film.
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.
- Christine Carpenter; Reeve; Pauline Carpenter
- Chris Newby
- 1993
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Anchoress 1993 1 hr. 46 min. Drama List Reviews 76% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Passion for the Virgin Mary leads a young woman (Natalie Morse) to become a walled-in recluse at her 14th-century...
Nov 9, 1994 · Two letters written on a church wall in the English countryside tell of Christine Carpenter, who escaped from the world only to long for it again. The film's Christine (Natalie Morse) is like...
