Nuns up a mountain

Black Narcissus (1947)

Directed by Powell and Pressburger this film based on the novel of the same name stars Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons and David Farrar. A group of nuns travel to a remote community in the Himalayas to set up a new convent.

While there are some differences between the novel and the film the film does an excellent job of filling the film with implied sexual tension and temptation without offending anyone by the delicate subject matter. The story works well showing the nuns struggle between faith and temptation, while some of the characters maybe a little backwards in their views of other races the film itself is not. What is most impressive about the film is that despite being shot entirely in England the external shots do an amazing job of capturing the scale of the Himalayan setting.

5/5