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It’s a brave soul that takes on Black Narcissus. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden’s nuns-go-crazy-in-the-Himalayas novel is a landmark in British cinema, leaning into saturated colours, stunning painted backdrops, dramatic music stings and a pitch-perfect cast to create a masterpiece of loneliness and lust, frenzy and frustration. This new BBC/FX Productions take, written by Amanda Coe ( Apple Tree Yard) and directed by Charlotte Bruus Christensen (...

Gemma Arterton and the Black Narcissus cast on their BBC Christmas drama: ‘It’s The Shining with nuns’ The i 12/17/2020 Gerard Gilbert The Call the Midwife costume department doesn’t have a monopoly on wimples this Christmas. BBC One’s Black Narcissus tells of an order of Anglo-Catholic nuns tasked with setting up a school and hospital in an abandoned palace in the Tibetan Himalayas. The dilapidated fictional citadel of Mopu used to house a harem, and the building�...

The troubled sisters of Black Narcissus Credit: Miya Mizuno  Of all the great masterpieces of British film – and there really aren’t that many – surely the most wondrously strange is Black Narcissus. Released in 1947 in Technicolor, it’s the story of a pre-war community of Anglican nuns who try to establish a school and convent high in the Himalayas in a mysterious palace that once housed the harem of an Indian prince. There the nuns encounter isolation, suspicion and an eruption of se...