Anchoress / an International Film Circuit release ; the British Film Institute and Corsan Productions present ; written by Judith Stanley-Smith, Christine Watkins ; producers, Paul Breuls, Ben Gibson ; directed by Chris Newby.
Edition:
Letterboxed.
Publisher:
Vanguard,
Copyright Date:
c2005
Description:
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Natalie Morse, Eugene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Peter Postlethwaite, Christopher Eccleston. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.
Summary:
Christine Carpenter is a 14th-century visionary girl in England, who attracts the village priest and an officer. The priest urges her to become an Anchoress (a virgin walled up in the church) and she accepts, attracting pilgrims seeking her advice and healing power. When her awakening sexuality calls into question this lifelong arrangement, she challenges the priest's authority. The order of society, including its government, religion and sexual relations, are thrown into turmoil.
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