Black Narcissus (1946)
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Flora Robson, Sabu, Jean Simmons
Synopsis:
In the mountains above Dharjeeling a relatively young sister superior attempts to turn a former harem and monastery into a mission station for nuns. She reckons without the elemental forces in the world outside and seething passions within.
Review:
Wonderfully over the top melodrama, the last film one would expect to be made in postwar Britain, what with its rich colour palate and barely concealed eroticism. The art design and Technicolor cinematography are truly first rate, and no matter if some of the writing and acting is stilted, one must bask in the sheer rapture of it all and the miracle that it was made in a studio. Among the many directorial flourishes lies the casting of Byron opposite Kerr, as a kind of crazed doppelgänger.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Flora Robson, Sabu, Jean Simmons
Synopsis:
In the mountains above Dharjeeling a relatively young sister superior attempts to turn a former harem and monastery into a mission station for nuns. She reckons without the elemental forces in the world outside and seething passions within.
Review:
Wonderfully over the top melodrama, the last film one would expect to be made in postwar Britain, what with its rich colour palate and barely concealed eroticism. The art design and Technicolor cinematography are truly first rate, and no matter if some of the writing and acting is stilted, one must bask in the sheer rapture of it all and the miracle that it was made in a studio. Among the many directorial flourishes lies the casting of Byron opposite Kerr, as a kind of crazed doppelgänger.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Flora Robson, Sabu, Jean Simmons
Synopsis:
In the mountains above Dharjeeling a relatively young sister superior attempts to turn a former harem and monastery into a mission station for nuns. She reckons without the elemental forces in the world outside and seething passions within.
Review:
Wonderfully over the top melodrama, the last film one would expect to be made in postwar Britain, what with its rich colour palate and barely concealed eroticism. The art design and Technicolor cinematography are truly first rate, and no matter if some of the writing and acting is stilted, one must bask in the sheer rapture of it all and the miracle that it was made in a studio. Among the many directorial flourishes lies the casting of Byron opposite Kerr, as a kind of crazed doppelgänger.