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BBC/FX Limited Series ‘Black Narcissus’ Gets A Trailer, Premiering Later This Year

by Dave Elliott

A trailer has landed for the BBC/FX co-production of Black Narcissus. Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by Rumer Godden, the series features and all-star cast, led by Gemma Arterton.

From Bafta award-winning writer Amanda Coe (‘The Trial Of Christine Keeler’, ‘Apple Tree Yard’), DNA TV and director Charlotte Bruus Christensen comes a new three-part adaptation of the 1939 classic literary novel ‘Black Narcissus’, Rumer Godden’s iconic tale of sexual repression and forbidden love.

Mopu, Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace, once known as the “House of Women”, holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy.

During the latter years of British rule in India, ambitious young nun Sister Clodagh heads a mission to a remote part of the Himalayas. The palace of Mopu has been donated by General Toda Rai, who hopes the Sisters of St. Faith will rid the “House of Women” of unhappy memories connected to his late sister, Srimati. Although Clodagh ignores the warnings of the General’s raffish agent Mr. Dean, isolation and illness soon take their toll, with the haunting atmosphere of the palace particularly affecting volatile Sister Ruth. As past and present collide, the arrival of the young General Dilip Rai is the catalyst for an explosion of repressed desires that may end in a fatal confrontation.

Are there really ghosts here in the Himalayas, or are the nuns just succumbing to long-repressed primal desires? And which of them is prepared to die – or kill – for love?

The series stars Gemma Arterton (‘The King’s Man’, ‘The Escape’) as Sister Clodagh, Alessandro Nivola (‘American Hustle’, ‘Chimerica’) as Mr. Dean, Aisling Franciosi (‘The Nightingale’, ‘I Know This Much Is True’) as Sister Ruth, Diana Rigg (‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Victoria’) as Mother Dorothea, Jim Broadbent (‘Paddington’, ‘Paddington 2’, ‘The Iron Lady’) as Father Roberts, Gina McKee (‘Catherine The Great’, ‘Bodyguard’) as Sister Adela, Rosie Cavaliero (‘Prey’, ‘Unforgotten’) as Sister Briony, Karen Bryson (‘MotherFatherSon’, ‘Safe’) as Sister Philippa, Gina McKee (‘Catherine The Great’, ‘Bodyguard’) as Sister Adela, Patsy Ferran (‘Tom And Jerry’, ‘Jamestown’) as Sister Blanche, Nila Aalia (‘A Discovery of Witches’) as Angu Ayah, Kulvinder Ghir (‘Still Open All Hours’) as General Toda Rai, Chaneil Kular (‘Sex Education’) as Dilip Rai, Dipika Kunwar as Kanchi, Soumil Malla as Joseph Anthony, Gianni Gonsalves as Srimati Rai.

Black Narcissus‘ premieres “December 2020” on BBC One/iPlayer in the UK. The drama will premiere Monday, November 23, 2020, on FX in the USA beginning at 8/7c, with the full series also available the following day on FX on Hulu.

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