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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 ...
12 mag 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.
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
- 1995-05
Anchoress 1993 1h 46m Drama List Reviews 77% Audience Score 250+ Ratings 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 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
10 set 2012 · In a medieval community, a peasant (Morse) becomes obsessed with the local chapel's statue of the Virgin, and, pronounced a holy anchoress, is walled up in the building with the object of her...
In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress…
