Black Narcissus (Criterion Collection)
A story of exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land. Towering over the screen ... as the mountains that saw it happen.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 20, 2010
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Deborah Kerr | |
| Performer: | David Farrar, Sabu, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Jenny Laird, May Hallatt, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron & Judith Furse | |
| Directed by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | |
| Edited by | Reginald Mills | |
| Screenwriting by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | |
| Composition by | Brian Easdale | |
| Cinematography by | Jack Cardiff | |
| Story by | Rumer Godden | |
| Produced by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1947 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1947 -
Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff
Entertainment Reviews:
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This is a landmark of Hollywood-on-Thames trompe-l'oeil.
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New Yorker
Theatre this Michael Powell film most certainly is, as stressed by the gothic melodrama of the story and the acting, the studio setting with its beautiful backdrops and vivid colours and the most deliberate of characters and events.
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Time Out
Black Narcissus is an Archers' film. And it's perfect.
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Boulder Weekly
Rating: 5/5 --
Run, don't walk to see this 1947 classic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
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Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
There's something truly unearthly about this place of howling winds, yawning chasms and atmosphere thick with temptation. Sanctity, it will be proven, is no match for sin.
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Time Out
Designed and photographed with an almost breathtaking sense of beauty.
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The Spectator
Stylized and expressionistic, this was one of the most unusual films of its era.
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Product Description:
Anglo-Catholic nuns on an isolated missionary assignment in the Himalayas face an assortment of worldly challenges, including sexual temptations and other intriguing ups-and-downs. One of the great films from the "golden age of cinema." Adapted from the novel by Rumep Godden. Academy Awards: Best, (Color) Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best (Color) Cinematography.
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