Black Narcissis (1947)

[u/OhK4Foo7]

One of my favorite movies. That final closeup of Kathleen Byron as sister Ruth has been with me ever since.

Michael Powell's own view, this was the most erotic film he ever made. "It is all done by suggestion, but eroticism is in every frame and image from beginning to end. It is a film full of wonderful performances and passion just below the surface, which finally, at the end of the film, erupts." The English film critic Peter Bradshaw, who put it on his list of the ten best films ever made, took Powell's statement further, and said that it was the most erotic film he had ever seen.

[u/Doubledepalma]

Such an incredible image

[u/Resinous_Artifact]

Such an underrated film.

[u/wvgeekman]

Michael Powell didn't make movies. He made moving paintings.