Der Name der Rose (1986)'s comments

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owlrafter

Well that sex scene really came out of nowhere

6 years 5 months ago

D.Fernandes1685

The greatest injustice ever! Not in any lists? Atmospheric, well-acted, intelectually stimulating, grotesque and absolutely thrilling! This movie is almost perfect!

9 years 11 months ago

shinguard

It's pretty good, let's be honest.

12 years 8 months ago

IreneAdler

A really good movie. Watched it in school for the first time and again from time to time since then. Dark, gloomy atmosphere, quite scary at times, really well done. I love the ending, too.

10 years 1 month ago

DennisBoom

Brilliant movie. Especially, the oppressive atmosphere is captured very well.

12 years 7 months ago

TreadwayNathan

Now half the comments on here are wrong.

6 years 3 months ago

Earring72

Moody and bleak mystery drama. Well acted and tense but also off putting at times.

4 months 1 week ago

Interesting. The Tubi version has the sex scene (around the 44-minute mark) but Amazon Prime entirely cuts it. It's quite important to the plot, so it's not just cheap titillation.

Otherwise, this is a beautiful production that somehow seems both overlong and awkwardly condensed. I really sensed the frustrated sweat that went into adapting the novel into a screenplay. Also, Christian Slater is just awful.

5 months ago

Siskoid

I never managed to read Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but the film definitely has the hallmarks of other works of his I've read - a mystery filled with libraries and books, well-researched history, and so on - and I'm generally interested in such fare. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud doesn't shirk from that, though the film is necessarily less complex than the novel must be (it's a brick), and some of the murder mystery solutions seem obvious (the how if not the who or why). The Medieval monastery setting is interesting, though it's filled with grotesques. Perhaps that's historically accurate - the order is filled with men who could not marry for whatever reason, presumably - but there are moments where it feels like only a few years have passed since Annaud's other well-known film Quest for Fire (indeed, it's shot in similar climes and what do we make of the feral, subverbal peasants living by the abbey?). So I initially found it a difficult watch, but for the charismatic presence of Sean Connery's Franciscan Sherlock, his Watson a young Christian Slater with a single expression on his face, but as the mystery deepened, I got hooked. The political maneuvering between Connery and F. Murray Abraham's inquisitor was a highlight.

5 years 1 month ago