Poetic documentary about London.

Anchoress director Chris Newby documents the location of the real Christine Carpenter’s anchoress cell at St. James’ Church in Shere, England.

An essay by Anchoress director Chris Newby that explores parallels between COVID lockdown in the UK and Christine Carpenter’s experience as an anchoress, featuring outtakes from the film.

他们是一对不太可能的男同性恋伴侣。哈里是个害羞的年轻同性恋者，由于他脸上的胎记而感到自卑，无法融入当地的酒吧。年长的费立脾气暴躁，而表面上像个有可疑背景的异性恋者……他们在美丽的海岸认识，关系从互不信任到深爱对方。

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, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing 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.