Black Narcissus
A story of exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land. Towering over the screen ... as the mountains that saw it happen.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 5, 2019
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Mr Fat - W Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Deborah Kerr | |
| Performer: | Jean Simmons, Esmond Knight, Judith Furse, Jenny Laird, May Hallatt, Kathleen Byron, David Farrar & Flora Robson | |
| Directed by | Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell | |
| Edited by | Reginald Mills | |
| Screenwriting by | Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell | |
| Composition by | Brian Easdale | |
| Cinematography by | Jack Cardiff | |
| Story by | Rumer Godden | |
| Produced by | Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1947 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1947 -
Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff
Entertainment Reviews:
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...BLACK NARCISSUS uses unbearably rich colors....The hyperreal imagery is crucial...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 5/5 --
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.
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Time Out
The Archers at their most carnal-bonkers-sublime
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CinePassion
Designed and photographed with an almost breathtaking sense of beauty.
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The Spectator
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.
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Time Out
This is a landmark of Hollywood-on-Thames trompe-l'oeil.
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New Yorker
Rating: 4/4 --
Michael Powell was right when he called Black Narcissus an "erotic film," but the attraction is pure Pygmalionism.
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Slant Magazine
Product Description:
Anglo-Catholic nuns on an isolated missionary assignment in the Himalayas face an assortment of worldly challenges, including sexual temptations and other intriguing ups-and-downs. One of the great films from the "golden age of cinema." Adapted from the novel by Rumep Godden. Academy Awards: Best, (Color) Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best (Color) Cinematography.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 63,599
- UPC: 191091537275
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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