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Black Narcissus (1947) Movie Reviews
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Empire Magazine [UK]
Sexual tension hangs in the air as the wind blows and native drums beat, but it's on a visual level that the film excels....read the complete Black Narcissus (1947) review at Empire Magazine [UK]
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Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
There are precious few films that have the incredible sense of place that pervades every frame of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Set on a high mountain peak in the Indian Himalayas where a group of Anglican nuns are fighting...read the complete Black Narcissus (1947) review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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by C. J. Leach on August 06, 2008
The Oscar-winning 1947 story of a group of 5 nuns establishing a school/hospital mission at an ancient remote Himalayan palace . . . a former harem. They are to serve the village in the valley far below. Remarkably, this was all shot in a London studio ...
by Nathan T. Parker ... on April 06, 2008
Above all, this is beautifully shot picture where every frame is carefully composed ... and the results are nothing short of amazing. Usually, technicolour films tend to come off as oversaturated and garish, but the colour here is carefully controlled to ...
by Mr. Stephen Kenne... on March 28, 2008
Powell and Pressburger in the 40's were a sure fire guarantee of cinema that was imaginative, innovative and involving - and this was one of the pinnacles of their career.
On the surface another British melodrama, this was made into much more, using the ...
by The Queen of Noir... on February 23, 2008
Yeah it's all that. When I started viewing it, I was a bit uncertain. Nuns in the Himalayas? OOO baby. But the nuns are stationed in an old brothel and let the fun begin. The locale has its effect on the ladies who start to question their faith and their ...
by Malfoyfan "Cath" on February 19, 2008
I first saw this movie on late-night TV and was entranced by its weirdness and eroticism. It's a really odd story but so beautifully rendered it's impossible to turn away from it. The acting is sometimes a little stilted and stagey (Sister Ruth's a bit ...
by K. Boullosa on February 01, 2008
Since so many others here have noted Criterion's inexcusable presentation of the 'cut' version of this movie in this DVD, I will not waste time on the issue except to join my disgusted protests to theirs, and move on to reviewing the film itself.
"Black ...
by John Farr "The Be... on June 21, 2007
Another great success for "Red Shoes" helmers Powell-Pressburger, "Narcissus" is an absorbing, finely acted British melodrama about the secular problems facing a new mother superior in an unfamiliar, potentially hostile new environment. The directors ...
by Natalie Rasumoff on June 04, 2007
I loved this movie because of the powerful characters and their struggle for doing some good in the world against the evil and the weakness of our human nature. Even though the film was filmed in a studio, due to budgetary constraints, the feel is of ...
by Michael Valdiviel... on May 04, 2007
Black Narcissus, based on the book of the same name by Rumer Godden, is about five nuns who seem to go to the end of the world. They are sent to a palace high in the mountains in the Himalayas to start a Protestant missionary. They find themselves in a ...
by Marlene at Thoth ... on February 22, 2007
I loved this film, the characters, the setting, what's spoken, and what's left unsaid. Talk about the wrong place to send 5 women (nuns) who are repressing their sexuality...The Women's Palace. It's not the constant winds that haunts these women, but ...
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