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The troubled sisters of Black Narcissus
Credit: Miya Mizuno
Of all the great masterpieces of British film – and there really aren’t that many – surely the most wondrously strange is Black Narcissus. Released in 1947 in Technicolor, it’s the story of a pre-war community of Anglican nuns who try to establish a school and convent high in the Himalayas in a mysterious palace that once housed the harem of an Indian prince.
There the nuns encounter isolation, suspicion and an eruption of sexual desire, which descends into madness. The film’s director, Michael Powell, once said that “eroticism is in every frame and image from beginning to end”.