THE NAME OF THE ROSE (seen on 3-2-2009)
Original title of the film: Der Name der Rose
Director: Jean Jacques Annaud
Starring: Sean Connery
Imp: The IMDB tagline "who in the name of God gets away with murder" is the key
to the title and the theme of the film.
Based on Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, this films takes us to a Renaissance (14th century) Franciscon monastery to expose its perversions and superstitious practices. Interestingly Sean Connery who plays the lead role of William of Baskerville also plays (giving resonance to his name here reminding us of Doyle's novel, Hound of Baskerville), true to his film image, a Bond here to unearth the medieval corrupt practices in what is supposed to be a holy place. In this film he even defies the powerful Inquisition's verdict of condemning the innocent to stake (unlike in Shaw's St. Joan where the inveterate rationalist never swerves from his path of reason in dealing with the blind but powerful medieval Inquisition) and vindicates the truth. The title's suggestion that the rose--in this case the notion of an austere but erudite way of life of the monks at a Francison monastery--belies the name and notion it is meant to communicate, it seems to me, is justified by the theme of the film.
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