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| Rumer Godden |
We started off our film night watching a tribute to upcoming "National Poetry Month" with a video interpretation of Charles Baudelaires' poem: Envirez-Vous, and then continued with another film based on the work of author Rumer Godden http://www.rumergodden.com/ in keeping with our Literature and Film theme. Please check out her website to view Godden's many works. She was a prolific writer and many of her books became films:
In This House of Brede (1975)
Battle of the Villa Fiorita, The (1965)
Greengage Summer, The (1961)
Innocent Sinners (1958)
River, The (1951)
Enchantment (1948)
Black Narcissus (1947)
TV Films
Peacock Spring
Kizzi
Tottie
Black Narcissus:
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Deborah Kerr, David Farrar and Flora Robson
Generally the group felt the film was interesting but no where near as beautiful or sophisticated as "The River" and dated in its portrayal of racial attitudes. The character of "Mr. Dean" wore shorts through most of the movie while it was obviously freezing, which we found incongruous.
Synopsis:
Sister Clodah is dispatched with four other nuns to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. It's a difficult journey and their new house is a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff that had been abandoned by a religious Brotherhood many years before. They soon establish a school and an infirmary though the local General's agent, Mr. Dean, warns them against treating the deathly ill as they would no doubt be blamed if the patient doesn't recover. The location, the culture and the mountain air all begin to have a strange effect on the Sisters. Sister Clodagh, who is also on her first assignment as Sister Superior, begins to remember a romance she had as a young woman before entering the sisterhood. Another however, becomes obsessed with Mr. Dean, which leads to tragedy. Written by garykmcd IMDB
