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Black Narcissus
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After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension, both with the natives and also within their own group, as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.
After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension, both with the natives and also within their own group, as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.
Actors:
Helen Debroy Summers,
Eddie Whaley Jr.,
David Farrar,
Jenny Laird,
Shaun Noble,
Judith Furse,
Sabu
Helen Debroy Summers
January 4, 1898 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK
Eddie Whaley Jr.
February1939, Brighton, England, UK
David Farrar
21 August 1908, Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Jenny Laird
13 February 1912, Chorlton, Manchester, England, UK
Shaun Noble
1 June 1921, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Judith Furse
4 March 1912, Camberley, Surrey, England, UK
Sabu
27 January 1924, Karapur, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Michael Powell ,
Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell
30 September 1905, Bekesbourne, Kent, England, UK
Emeric Pressburger
5 December 1902, Miskolc, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Country:
United Kingdom
Keywords:
#Black Narcissus #David Farrar #Deborah Kerr #Emeric Pressburger #Flora Robson #Michael Powell
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July 22, 2010
Colonial hubris nunsploitation = an unforgettable movie.November 25, 2013
The Archers at their most carnal-bonkers-sublimeMarch 23, 2010
Powell's equally extravagant visual style transforms it into a landscape of the mind -- grand and terrible in its thorough abstraction.March 23, 2010
Run, don't walk to see this 1947 classic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.March 26, 2009
Production has gained much through being in color. The production and camerawork atone for minor lapses in the story, Jack Cardiff's photography being outstanding.June 15, 2015
The natural colour is beautiful; but, more, the rhythm of camera movement is recurrently used in combination with an overtinting of the whole scene, at significant dramatic moments, to produce an emphasis we have not seen before.August 03, 2015
This is a landmark of Hollywood-on-Thames trompe-l'oeil.December 30, 2012
Michael Powell was right when he called Black Narcissus an "erotic film," but the attraction is pure Pygmalionism.June 24, 2006
Theatre this Michael Powell film most certainly is, as stressed by the gothic melodrama of the story and the acting, the studio setting with its beautiful backdrops and vivid colours and the most deliberate of characters and events.August 05, 2010
A 1947 English film classic about the challenges of desire faced by some nuns in a new mission in the Himalayas.January 01, 2013
There's something truly unearthly about this place of howling winds, yawning chasms and atmosphere thick with temptation. Sanctity, it will be proven, is no match for sin.May 20, 2003
While Messrs. Powell and Pressburger may have a picture that will disturb and antagonize some, they also have in Black Narcissus an artistic accomplishment of no small proportions.