BLACK NARCISSUS 1947
Directed by Michael Powell
101 minutes
In English with English subtitles
How to describe this film without giving the wrong idea? First off I should point out that this visual stunner was created by the magical filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, creators of the haunting flick The Red Shoes. If you have seen that film, then you have an idea of their powers.
Now I could just say this movie is about five nuns, living in a palace-convent high in the Himalayas. That is what gives the wrong impression. It is actually a movie about hysteria. But also about the supernatural. It has some of the most beautifully crafted atmospheres I have ever come across... and maybe that's because it deals with a group of people living at the end of the world, cut off from civilization. It is also about madness, and it's deeply erotic. The tensions run high, but so does the sheer poetry of this film. It is a treatise on rapture and exhilaration. Even the palace where these nuns are living has a secret past - it was once a harem or a brothel, giving everything that happens there a wild edge. It stars Deborah Kerr (The Innocents) and Jean Simmons.
All of these bottled-up emotions, both suppressed and erupting, are captured in lavish Technicolor. The cinematography by Jack Cardiff is breathtaking (really), and needs to be experienced on the big screen. A real gem.
DATUM EN TIJD | DOORS OPEN AT 20.00 | MOVIE STARTS AT 20.30 | TICKETS 3,- | PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ARRIVE BEFORE 20.15 TO BE CERTAIN OF A SEAT!
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