ANCHORESS

In fourteenth-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 she be walled up in the church as an anchoress…

Chris Newby’s Anchoress is the moving account of a pure young girl’s sense of faith and the trouble it brings her from the patriarchal society she’s a part of. Poetic and carefully designed, the film is stunningly shot in black & white by cinematographer Michel Baudour.