Compelling TV remake of Oscar-winning film Black Narcissus
British nuns stuck in the Himalayas, living in a crumbling palace where the former local ruler had kept his harem and going slowly mad with pent-up passion over a handsome Englishman. What’s not to love? This new retelling of Black Narcissus, the 1939 Rumer Godden novel that was turned into an Oscar-winning film starring Deborah Kerr in 1947, is utterly compelling, from the scenery to the simmering sexual tension. The movie was banned in Ireland, censored in America and described by Martin Scorsese as ‘one of the first truly erotic films’. We aren’t as easily shocked now, but the ...