THE NAME OF THE ROSE DVD [1986] - DVD - SEAN CONNERY - VGC

Name: THE NAME OF THE ROSE DVD [1986] - DVD - SEAN CONNERY - VGC
Brand: Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

NAME OF THE ROSE THE [1986] [DVD] [2004] Sean Connery F Murray\n\n-- .co.uk ReviewJean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a flawed attempt to adapt Umberto Eco's highly convoluted medieval bestseller for the screen, necessarily excising much of the esoterica that made the book so compelling. Still, what's left is a riveting whodunit set in a grimly and grimily realistic 14th-century Benedictine monastery populated by a parade of grotesque characters, all of whom spend their time lurking in dark places or scuttling, half-unseen, in the omnipresent gloom. A series of mysterious and gruesome deaths are somehow tied up with the unwelcome attention of the Inquisition, sent to root out suspected heretical behavior among the monastic scribes whose lives are dedicated to transcribing ancient manuscripts for their famous library, access to which is prevented by an ingenious maze-like layout.Enter Sean Connery as investigator-monk William of Baskerville (the Sherlock Holmes connection ma!