Anchoress (film)
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| Directed by | Chris Newby |
| Written by | Christine Watkins |
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| Cinematography | Michel Baudour |
| Edited by | Brand Thumim |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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.[1]
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. The story revolves around the girl's mystical visions of the Virgin Mary, the local reeve who wants to marry her, and 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).
Cast[]
- as Christine Carpenter
- Gene Bervoets as Reeve (as Eugene Bervoets)
- Toyah Willcox as Pauline Carpenter
- Pete Postlethwaite as William Carpenter
- Christopher Eccleston as Priest
- Michael Pas as Drover
- as Meg Carpenter
- Annette Badland as Mary
- as Daisy
- Julie T. Wallace as Bertha
- Ann Way as Alice
- as Bishop
- Jan Decleir as Mason
- as Ragged Martin
- as Ragged Martin's wife
- as Carter
- as Priest's boy
Year-end lists[]
- Honorable mention – Howie Movshovitz, The Denver Post[2]
See also[]
- List of historical drama films
References[]
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Anchoress". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- ^ Movshovitz, Howie (25 December 1994). "Memorable Movies of '94 Independents, fringes filled out a lean year". The Denver Post (Rockies ed.). p. E-1.
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