Coagulus Classic Movie for October - The Name of the Rose

BERND EICHINGER/BERND SCHAEFERS PRODUCTION. A JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD FILM. Based on the novel by UMBERTO ECO 'THE NAME OF THE ROSE'
SEAN CONNERY, F.MURRAY ABRAHAM, MICHAEL LONSDALE, CHRISTIAN SLATER, VALENTINA VARGAS Co Producers FRANCO CRISTALDI AND
ALEXANDRE MNOUCHKINE Executive Producers THOMAS SCHUHLY AND JAKE EBERTS Production Designer DANTE FERRETTI Music JAMES HORNER
Director of Photography TONINO DELLI COLLIA I.C. Screenplay ANDREW BIRKIN, GERALD BRACH, HOWARD FRANKLIN, ALAIN GODARD
Produced by BERND EICHINGER Directed by JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD

Released in 1986 NEUE CONSTANTIN FILM PRODUCTION GmbH - Certificate 18

Brother William of Baskerville (Connery) arrives at a medieval monastory to unravel the mysteries that surround the place. Murders in strange circumstances are occuring and he, along with Christan Slater at his side, vow to solve this conundrum.

Playing like a medieval version of Seven, while there are no massive action sequences, car chases or comedy one-liners, this is a deeply engrossing film. Connery is superb as the sleuthing monk and Slater manages to act his way out of the scot's fomidable shadow.

This film has plenty of apparent explanation followed by twists. The music fits superbly and F Murray Abraham plays an impressive adversary to a tee. This is definately a different film. I'd love to go into this a lot more but it really would spoil the magic of such a great movie. Go an

Rob / Coagulus