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It’s dangerous territory, remaking a classic British film as a TV mini-series. In 1947 when Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger created
Black Narcissus, a heady adaptation of Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel, they never set foot in the Himalayas.
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Gemma Arterton as the ambitious and troubled Sister Clodagh
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Black Narcissus, Rumer Godden’s 1939 bestseller, has the atmosphere and self-sufficiency of a dream. This story of a group of Anglican nuns who set out to establish the Convent of St Faith in northern India during the 1930s is compressed, sublimely visual and psychologically astute. Like a dream, its surface of compelling singularity flows over darker universal currents, and as with a dream, any attempt to explain it is bound to break its spell. From the moment we enter the narrative, along with ambitious alpha female Sister Clodagh – “the youngest Sister Superior in the Order” – we are dispatched up a mountain to discover an impossibly vivid, beautiful and troublesome place, which has many names: Mopu Palace, the House of Women, and now the Convent of St Faith. Most recently some German Jesuits attempted to rebrand the former seraglio as St Saviour’s School, before abandoning their missio
People handing out hand sanitizer on the streets in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday.Credit.Victor Moriyama for The New York Times
As the coronavirus continues its surge across the United States and Europe, where vaccinations recently began, total infections around the world have now topped 75 million.
In the United States, more than 128,000 people had been vaccinated as of Friday, according to a New York Times database tracking vaccinations. But that total is just slightly more than half the number of new cases reported across the country the same day.
The United States, the world’s largest coronavirus hot spot with more than 17.6 million people who have been infected over all, on Friday reported its first single-day caseload of more than 250,000 new infections.