Anchoress (film)
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Director Chris Newby Producers Paul Breuls, Ben Gibson Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Judith Stanley-Smith , Christine Watkins Release date 10 September 1993 (1993-09-10) Initial release September 10, 1993 (United Kingdom) Screenplay Judith Stanley-Smith, Christine Watkins Cast Natalie Morse (Christine Carpenter), Eugene Bervoets (Reeve), Toyah Willcox (Pauline Carpenter), Pete Postlethwaite (William Carpenter), Christopher Eccleston (Priest), Michael Pas (Drover)Similar movies The Pleasure Girls (1965) Tagline Ecstasy and orthodoxy in the 14th century! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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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. The story revolves around the girl's mystical visions of the Virgin Mary, the Priest who walls her into his village church, and his dislike of her mother, a midwife whom he regards as a witch.
The film is shot in black-and-white and visually resembles the works of Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, especially The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).
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Home media
The BFI released Anchoress on DVD in 2009. It includes various short films by director Chris Newby.
References
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