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5.9
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lucy67
Critic Lucy Mangan
rated 6

All the right ingredients are there – good performances from great players, gothic tropes, the mysterious this, the repressed that, the murky backstories strewn liberally and waiting to be revealed.

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Cast & Crew

Jim Broadbent
As Father Roberts
Gina McKee
As Sister Adela
Gemma Arterton
As Sister Clodagh
Alessandro Nivola
As Mr. Dean
Diana Rigg
As Mother Dorothea
Rosie Cavaliero
As Sister Briony
Kulvinder Ghir
As General Toda Rai
Patsy Ferran
As Sister Blanche

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Black Narcissus is a haunting and atmospheric tale of forbidden desires and tragic fate, set in the remote Himalayan palace of Mopu in 1934. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, they are drawn into a web of dark secrets and mysterious events that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Despite the warnings of the raffish agent Mr. Dean, the ambitious young nun Sister Clodagh ignores isolation and illness, and the haunting atmosphere of the palace affects her and the unstable Sister Ruth in different ways. As the past and present collide, the arrival of the young General Dilip Rai sparks an explosion of repressed desires that could end in a fatal confrontation

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