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Encyclopedia > Black Narcissus (1947 movie)

This is an article about a film by Powell & Pressburger. For the flower, see Narcissi.


Black Narcissus (1947) is a film by the British_based director_writer team of Powell & Pressburger.


A group of Anglican nuns who travel to a remote location in the Himalayas to set up a school and hospital, only to find themselves increasingly distracted by the beauty of their surroundings. Tensions mount when one of the nuns develops a crush on the smug and disrespectful Englishman whom they use to communicate with the indigenous people. The film won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.






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Black Narcissus: Criterion (1947) (1634 words)
Black Narcissus is something of an odd bird, and it’s a hard movie to nail in words.
I thought the movie was also well-acted, from the simmering restraint of Kerr’s Sister Clodagh, to the almost-but-not-quite-psychotic tone of Byron’s Sister Ruth.
Black Narcissus appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
1947 - encyclopedia article about 1947. (3471 words)
Architecture See also: 1946 in architecture, other events of 1947, 1948 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
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