1986 · drama · thriller · mystery
The Name of the Rose
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud2h 10m1986
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Our read: The Name of the Rose (1986) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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