Black Narcissus
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / GB, 1947 / 99 min.
This steamy psychological portrait of five nuns who open a mission in the Himalayas and succumb to repressed erotic desires and madness, is considered one of the highlights of British cinema. Oscars for camerawork, art direction and set design.
Black Narcissus is considered one of the most exotic films in British cinema. A film historian described it – a loose adaptation of the eponymous novel by British author Rumer Godden – as ‘a sequence of moods, shaped using colour and space’.
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Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Production year
1947
Country
GB
Original title
Black Narcissus
Length
99 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger enjoyed huge success with films such as The Red Shoes (1948), Black Narcissus (1947) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Eye presents the first-ever extensive retrospective of Powell & Pressburger’s work in the Netherlands.
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