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- Anchoress (1993) - IMDb
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In 14th-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 that she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with the responsibility of blessings the villagers.
- (457)
- Drama
- Chris Newby
- 1995-05
It's set in Shere, in Surrey, where 14-year-old Christine Carpenter, after claiming to be in direct contact with the Virgin Mary, takes the advice of her local priest and becomes an anchoress.
- Chris Newby
- British Film Institute
- Paul Breuls
- Judith Stanley-Smith
Chris Newby's 1993 movie tells the true and fascinating story of Christine Carpenter, the 14th century anchoress of Shere. Visually it's heavily influenced by the likes of Dreyer, Bergman and Tarkovsky but, because it's the 90s, there's also an essence of pretentious TV commercial to the monochrome imagery too.
- (856)
- BFI, Corsan, Upstate Films
- Chris Newby
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. It follows a 14-year-old girl from a small town in England during the fourteenth-century and her journey to becoming an anchoress.
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.
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.
Sep 10, 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...
