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Narcissus

1983 film by Norman McLaren

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Narcissus is a 1983 Canadian short musical and experimental film directed by Norman McLaren and produced by David Verrall, visualizing the legend of Narcissus in a modern way. It was produced for the National Film Board of Canada.

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Cast

Jean-Louis Morin as "Narcissus"

Sylvie Kinal as "Nymph"

Sylvain Lafortune as "A friend"

Production

The film had a budget of $702,607 (equivalent to $1,985,681 in 2025).

Awards

International Film Festival of India, New Delhi: Golden Peacock for Best Short Film of the Festival, 1984

Dance on Camera Festival, New York: Gold Star Award, 1984

Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton: Golden Sheaf for Best Experimental Film, 1984

American Film and Video Festival, New York: Honorable Mention, Visual Essays, 1984

Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Honorable Mention, 1984

Cartagena International Film Festival, Murcia, Spain: Special Mention 1985

International Romantic Film Festival, Divonne-les-Bains: First Prize/Madame de Stael Prize, 1985

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Also known as Narcisse

Notable quotes

“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234.
“Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.”
— Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148.
“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”
— Book EX, line 278.
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
— William Wordsworth, Sonnet. Not Love, Not War, Nor, etc.
“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
— Robert Burns, The Chevalier's Lament.
“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”
— Jeremy Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.

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