The extraordinary palette of colors in Powell and Pressburger's boldly stylized and sensual Black Narcissus is even more stunning in this 35mm Technicolor print, part of the collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Black Narcissus won a number of well-deserved Academy Awards, including one for Best Color Photography. Based on Rumer Godden's novel, it is set in the Himalyas, where five nuns struggle to maintain a hospital and school. The film is a psychologically acute, powerful study of the conflict between Christianity and the forces of nature. As the nuns struggle with the rigors of climate, they must also do battle with the forces of mysticism, madness and sexual frustration. Deborah Kerr, in one of her finest performances, Flora Robson and Jean Simmons star.