The Name of the Rose
“Who, in the name of God, is getting away with murder?”
DramaThrillerMystery
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.
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This film is a descent into a labyrinthine medieval world, thick with oppressive atmosphere and intellectual dread. It feels like unraveling a dark, theological puzzle, where every shadowed corridor holds a secret and reason clashes with dogma. A grim, cerebral journey into a forgotten past.
tenseintellectualatmosphericgrimmysteriousclaustrophobicslow-burngothic atmospherehistorical realismintellectual mysterymonastic aestheticlabyrinthine designreligion vs. reasonknowledge and ignoranceheresypower and corruptiontruth and deception
based on novel or booklibrarychristianityinquisitionmonkpoisonsecret passagereligionlabyrinthrichmiddle ages (476-1453)persecutionmedievalfranciscanburned at the stakepoormurder mysterygrotesque
