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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 (cinematographer on A Quiet Place), tries to channel the masterpiece while including more of the ori...

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’s lubricious past seems to be rubbing off on the sisters of St Faith. The three-part drama stars Ge...

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 sexual desire, which descends into madness. The film’s director, Michael Powell, once said that “e...