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Black Narcissus
Description
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:
Esmond Knight,
Sabu,
Shaun Noble,
Jean Simmons,
David Farrar,
Kathleen Byron,
Nancy Roberts
Esmond Knight
4 May 1906, East Sheen, Surrey, England, UK
Sabu
27 January 1924, Karapur, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
Shaun Noble
1 June 1921, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Jean Simmons
31 January 1929, Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
David Farrar
21 August 1908, Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Kathleen Byron
11 January 1921, London, England, UK
Nancy Roberts
22 July 1885, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Emeric Pressburger ,
Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger
5 December 1902, Miskolc, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Michael Powell
30 September 1905, Bekesbourne, Kent, England, UK
Country:
United Kingdom
Keywords:
#Black Narcissus #David Farrar #Deborah Kerr #Emeric Pressburger #Flora Robson #Michael Powell
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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.
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.
March 23, 2010
Run, don't walk to see this 1947 classic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
December 30, 2012
Michael Powell was right when he called Black Narcissus an "erotic film," but the attraction is pure Pygmalionism.
November 25, 2013
The Archers at their most carnal-bonkers-sublime
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.
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.
August 05, 2010
A 1947 English film classic about the challenges of desire faced by some nuns in a new mission in the Himalayas.
March 23, 2010
Powell's equally extravagant visual style transforms it into a landscape of the mind -- grand and terrible in its thorough abstraction.
July 22, 2010
Colonial hubris nunsploitation = an unforgettable movie.
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.
August 03, 2015
This is a landmark of Hollywood-on-Thames trompe-l'oeil.
