Nuns, ghosts and choking perfume: why I adapted Black Narcissus for the screen
Gemma Arterton as the ambitious and troubled Sister Clodagh Credit: Miya Mizuno Black Narcissus, Rumer Godden’s 1939 bestseller, has the atmosphere and self-sufficiency of a dream. This story of a group of Anglican nuns who set out to establish the Convent of St Faith in northern India during the 1930s is compressed, sublimely visual and psychologically astute. Like a dream, its surface of compelling singularity flows over darker universal currents, and as with a dream, any attempt to explain it is bound to break its spell. From the moment we enter the narrative, along with ambitious alph...
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