6/8/2023 0 Comments I the name of the rose![]() It is by no coincidence, however, that Eco’s hero (Turturro), a Franciscan friar, resembles Sherlock Holmes he is British, his name is William of Baskerville, as in “The Hound of,” and he begins the adventure with one of those detailed deductions that look to the outsider like magic. ![]() There are secret doors, secret passages, secret codes, secret writing. Both stories are set in a medieval-type world of stone and skulduggery (and some actual skulls). (We open on a battlefield.)Įven more to the point, it has created a new character, named Anya - sorry, Anna (Greta Scarano) - a dark-haired, bow-and-arrow-toting girl, sometimes passing for a boy, who is out on a mission of revenge. More to the point, this “Name of the Rose” - an Italian-German, English-language co-production that premieres here Thursday on Sundance TV, with a cast headed by John Turturro, Rupert Everett and Michael Emerson - puts on-screen every reference to sex and violence in the text and adds some of its own. ![]() ![]() It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel “The Name of the Rose” begins the same week that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” finished its business, just as it may be mere happenstance that “Game” rhymes exactly with “Name,” as “Thrones” nearly does with “Rose.” ![]()
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