Black Narcissus
1947, Not rated, 99 min. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Starring Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar and Sabu.
Timed to the release of new documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, AFS Cinema revisits three of the duo’s very best. They’re all consumed with crazy, in their own bewitching ways: 1948’s The Red Shoes, about a ballerina torn between art and love; 1947’s Black Narcissus, about a sect of nuns in Nepal going a little mad (from the isolation? the altitude? their suppressed sexual urges?); and 1945’s perfectly wonderful romance I Know Where I’m Going!, about a pragmatic woman in danger of derailing her best laid plans when bad weather puts her in the path of a charming naval officer. Catch one or all of ’em – you can’t go wrong. – Kimberley Jones
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