Black Narcissus (Criterion Collection)
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 Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 20, 2010
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Deborah Kerr | |
Performer: | David Farrar, Sabu, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Jenny Laird, May Hallatt, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron & Judith Furse | |
Directed by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | |
Edited by | Reginald Mills | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | |
Composition by | Brian Easdale | |
Cinematography by | Jack Cardiff | |
Story by | Rumer Godden | |
Produced by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1947 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1947 -
Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff
Entertainment Reviews:
The Archers at their most carnal-bonkers-sublime
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CinePassion
...BLACK NARCISSUS uses unbearably rich colors....The hyperreal imagery is crucial...
Entertainment Weekly
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
Stylized and expressionistic, this was one of the most unusual films of its era.
Uncut
Black Narcissus is an Archers' film. And it's perfect.
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Boulder 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
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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- UPC: 715515061117
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