Black Narcissus (1947)
Deborah Kerr plays a nun who’s transferred against her will to head up a new seminary and school in Calcutta. While most of the movie tries to convince the audience how stressful the assignment is, and how terrible the “heathens” are, I was left puzzled. What she and the other four accompanying nuns went through wasn’t that bad. Why did they lose it?
For no explained reason, David Farrar lives in Calcutta, and despite a couple of drunken episodes, he’s always around to dispense advice or help the struggling nuns. Most of the natives aren’t interested in being saved or educated, but a very influential member of society actively seeks their help in furthering his education, so doesn’t that kind of make up for the others’ apathy? It was very strange to me, that these non-problems cause the nuns to hallucinate, beg for transfers, and lose their tempers.
Jean Simmons has a very small part in this movie. She plays a morally loose Indian, given to the nuns so that she might stay out of trouble. She was given dark makeup for her skin and an earring for her nose, but her performance is more comical than believable. And to top it off, she doesn’t utter a single word! But, regardless how much you like Jean Simmons, or Deborah Kerr, don’t watch this one. You can see Deborah Kerr play a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, which is a far better movie.
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For no explained reason, David Farrar lives in Calcutta, and despite a couple of drunken episodes, he’s always around to dispense advice or help the struggling nuns. Most of the natives aren’t interested in being saved or educated, but a very influential member of society actively seeks their help in furthering his education, so doesn’t that kind of make up for the others’ apathy? It was very strange to me, that these non-problems cause the nuns to hallucinate, beg for transfers, and lose their tempers.
Jean Simmons has a very small part in this movie. She plays a morally loose Indian, given to the nuns so that she might stay out of trouble. She was given dark makeup for her skin and an earring for her nose, but her performance is more comical than believable. And to top it off, she doesn’t utter a single word! But, regardless how much you like Jean Simmons, or Deborah Kerr, don’t watch this one. You can see Deborah Kerr play a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, which is a far better movie.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Juhi Thaker" for posting!
More Deborah Kerr movies here!
More Jean Simmons movies here!