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Based on Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 psychological melodrama Black Narcissus has long been part of the film-classic canon. Starring an unforgettable Deborah Kerr, it’s a uniquely heady brew of repressed love, simmering Gothic eroticism and the crumbling of the Christian colonial project, all brought to vivid life by Jack Cardiff’s Oscar-winning Technicolor photography.
You can understand, then, why writer Amanda Coe (The was somewhat reticent about the prospect of a new adaptation. “My initial response was: the film’s a masterpiece, so why would you create that problem for
