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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Black_NarcissusBlack Narcissus - Wikipedia

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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.

2. www.bbc.co.uk › culture › articleThe enduring allure of erotic masterpiece Black Narcissus - BBC

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   Nov 18, 2020 · That movie was made by an English director and a Hungarian-born writer-producer: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the celebrated cinema partnership revered for a series of...

3. www.bfi.org.uk › features › black-narcissusBlack Narcissus: Powell and Pressburger’s classic | BFI

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   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?

4. www.telegraph.co.uk › women › lifeThe real story behind Black Narcissus, the escapist fantasy ...

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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...

5. metro.co.uk › 2020/12/27 › who-wrote-black-narcissusWho wrote Black Narcissus and has it been filmed before ...

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   Dec 27, 2020 · Who wrote the original novel of Black Narcissus and has it been filmed before? The BBC drama Black Narcissus is an adaptation from Bafta award-winning writer Amanda Coe.

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6. www.sensesofcinema.com › 2009 › cteqBlack Narcissus - Senses of Cinema

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   Mar 10, 2009 · Released in the year India gained independence from Britain, Black Narcissus was adapted from Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel of the same name. The film marks Powell and Pressburger’s first significant foray into adaptation.

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   Who made Black Narcissus?

   • That movie was made by an English director and a Hungarian-born writer-producer: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the celebrated cinema partnership revered for a series of groundbreaking and influential British films, of which Black Narcissus has become one of the best-loved.

   The enduring allure of erotic masterpiece Black Narcissus

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   Is Black Narcissus based on a true story?

   • 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.

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   What is Black Narcissus about?

   • Black Narcissus tells the story of a group of nuns who find themselves overcome by repressed desire when they move to a Himalayan retreat (Credit: Alamy)

   The enduring allure of erotic masterpiece Black Narcissus

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   Is Black Narcissus an opera film?

   • Black Narcissus is not an opera, but as Powell explains, 'I started out almost as a documentary director and ended up as a producer of opera'. The film features about twelve minutes of opera excerpts, but in the sense that 'music, emotion, image and voices all blended together into a new and splendid whole', it can be considered an opera-like experience.

   Black Narcissus – Senses of Cinema

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   Who are the actors in 'Black Narcissus'?

   • The cast of 'Black Narcissus' includes: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Flora Robson, and Esmond Knight. I first saw 'Black Narcissus' on a borrowed VHS tape. I had just seen 'A Matter of Life and Death' (1946) at the Melbourne Cinémathèque, and was blown away by its odd tone, use of freeze-frames, and mix of colour and black-and-white cinematography.

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   When was Black Narcissus released on DVD?

   • The Criterion Collection, an American home media distribution company, released Black Narcissus on laserdisc in the early 1990s, and issued it on DVD in 2002. Noel Murray, writing for The A.V. Club, deemed the 2002 DVD as a "crackerjack release", noting it was a direct copy of the old laserdisc.

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8. www.bustle.com › entertainment › is-black-narcissusIs Black Narcissus Based On A True Story? - Bustle

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   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.