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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 ...
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 · 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.
Directed by Chris Newby. Ecstasy and orthodoxy in the 14th century! 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. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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- BFI, Corsan, Upstate Films
- Chris Newby
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.
- Chris Newby
- 108 min
- 2
Chris Newby’s Anchoress is the moving account of a pure young girl’s sense of faith and the trouble it brings her from the patriarchal society she’s a part of. Poetic and carefully designed, the film is stunningly shot in black & white by cinematographer Michel Baudour.
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 Surrey, England, in 1329.
