The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco is the one writer that can talk about the dark ages better than anyone, and his novel, the Name of the Rose is without a doubt the apogee of his writing, that’s why the movie directed by Jean‐Jacques Annaud and starring Sean Connery and a very young Christian Slater, is a marvel that controversial nature keeps away to be mainstream, despite being an absolute cinematic masterpiece. Guillaume de Baskerville, portrayed by Sean Connery, is an educated monk with a trouble past, who is summoned in an abbey where evil has claimed the life of a few recluses; opposing reason to blind faith in a time when inquisition was an oppressive and dominant force that ruled; the movie is never hiding or trying to put to the sides the dark themes from the story, quite often stinging at the demonic side of religions.