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Forbidden love
Starring Deborah Kerr and overseen by the writing-directing team of Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell, the previous screen adaptation of Black Narcissus (1947) is a classic of British cinema. So it takes a brave creative team to engage with Rumer Godden’s 20th-century gothic study of sexual and emotional repression.
Step forward scriptwriter Amanda Coe, whose 2019 drama The Trial Of Christine Keeler explored the Profumo affair, and cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen, who is taking on directing duties. Set in the 1930s, the duo’s three-part adaptation stars Gemma Arterton as Sister Clodagh of St Faiths, an order making a new home in a remote palace in Nepal. Here, Clodagh is attracted to a handsome yet damaged land agent, Mr Dean (Alessandro Nivola), and the ghosts of her own past become entangled with a tragic history.
Black Narcissus
BBC One / Expected to air in December
