Anchoress
- IMDb link: 0106271
- IMDb rating: 6.4 (568 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Chris Newby
- Cast: Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Pete Postlethwaite and others
- Release date: 1 May 1995
- Release year: 1993
- Runtime: 108 minutes
- Country: Belgium, United Kingdom
- Keywords: 14th century, folk horror, virgin, female rear nudity, skinny dipping, public nudity, peeping, washing, female topless nudity, female nudity
Plot
Storyline
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.
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. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.
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