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Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It stars Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, and Flora Robson, and features Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, and Kathleen Byron.
Dec 26, 2020 · Adapted from Rumer Godden’s 1939 book of the same name, Black Narcissus is an entirely fictional story. However, Godden did draw upon some of her own experiences when she wrote it.
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Dec 27, 2020 · With its key ingredients of longing, isolation and repression, little wonder this dark tale has inspired a new three-part BBC adaptation by Amanda Coe, the screenwriter behind Filth: The Mary...
Dec 25, 2020 · Black Narcissus, written while Godden was running a dance school for children in Kolkata, is her best-known exploration of the theme – though it has been somewhat eclipsed in terms of esteem by the 1947 film adaptation directed by Michael Powell and scripted by Emeric Pressburger.
May 25, 2017 · Black Narcissus at 75: exoticism and eroticism in Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece. Why does Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus still cast such a strange spell 75 years later?
Mar 2, 2015 · A 1939 review of Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden, the story of Anglican sisters who establish a school and hospital in the mountains near Darjeeling.
Complete summary of Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Black Narcissus.
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