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| Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA) | Release Date: September 24, 1986 |
Starring:
Christian Slater, Elya Baskin, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Helmut Qualtinger, Michael Habeck, Michael Lonsdale, Sean Connery, Urs Althaus, Volker Prechtel, William Hickey
Summary:
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Ribald, wry and even, from time to time, suspenseful, The Name of the Rose is actually a movie-movie -- rich in Hollywood convention, dense with images, with muscular performances (the principals play their types to the maximum), with good, old- fashioned movie stuff. Never a dull moment. How very unlikely. [24 Oct 1986, p.D1]
The Name of the Rose spins a whopping good tale, a medieval murder mystery that only those with seriously damaged attention spans will find hard to enjoy. [29 Sept 1986, p.63]
No matter how you look at it, "The Name of the Rose" is a film best
summarized by lists. It's a collection of elements, some well chosen and some
less so, that never comes together into a coherent whole. For everything the
movie has--which is, by and large, the best that money can buy--it doesn't
have a director, someone who can take all the pieces and put them together
into a vision. [24 Oct 1986, p.AC]
Yes, it is splendid that anyone would take on so formidable a project as Eco’s 500-page chambered nautilus of a novel. Yes, this certainly feels like a 14th-Century Italian abbey, bleak, drafty and forbidding. Yes, it looks like it too--the 14th-Century as cast by Federico Fellini, every face a grotesque. But no, sad to say, it isn’t a perfectly marvelous film.
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Whether these Hollywood touches will make the film appealing to the Rambo crowd is doubtful. By all means, read the book first. [24 Sept 1986]
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Of intrigue, about a mysterious sacrilegious crime that occurred in an isolated abbey. The atmosphere provokes both chills and disgust; one of its weak points is the slow development of the plot. To see for Sean Connery in his honorable memory. Long life.
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