Anchoress [videorecording] / a Corsan Production/British Film Institute Co-Production ; screenplay by Judith Stanley-Smith, Christine Watkins ; producers, Paul Breuls, Ben Gibson ; directed by Chris Newby ; an International Film Circuit release.
Drama. Title and date from disc surface. Natalie Morse, Eugene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Peter Postlethwaite, Christopher Eccleston. Dates on container: c1993 Corsan Productions; c1998 Vanguard Films. Official selection Sundance Film Festival. Premiere selection Cannes Film Festival.
Summary:
Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a 14th century visionary girl whose passions attract the village priest and an officer, the two most powerful men in the village. When the priest urges her to become an Anchoress (a walled-in recluse), she accepts; but when her awakening sexuality calls into question this lifelong arrangement, she challenges the priest's authority, and the order of society, its government, religion, and sexual relations are all thrown into turmoil.
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