And the 14th-century language style can make it a bit difficult to read at first, but you will get used to it quite quickly. I personally did not enjoy those parts of the story, but fortunately there weren’t many. Given that the story is situated in the religious world, there were some philosophical and theological discussions touched upon. This made it easier to understand and follow the narrative story. Every day represents a chapter, and each chapter is split into sub-chapters representing the canonical hours. I also liked that the book is structured in many parts. Structured and sprinkled with philosophical topics I found out later that the name of the character was actually inspired from one of Holmes’s cases – The Hound of the Baskervilles. Sherlock from other timesīrother William reminded me of Sherlock Holmes, he is the detective type that solves puzzles and is able to put together all the details to solve the mystery. The kernel of the micro-universe was the library, a labyrinthian and mystical place where only the chosen ones were allowed to enter. I particularly liked how the abbey was depicted as an isolated micro-universe, with its own network of relations and interests. Regarding my opinion on the book … I enjoyed it A LOT! And it’s for sure a book that I would like to re-read at some point in the future. Once they got there, strange things started happening and the mystery was increasing with every new death… Sounds intriguing, right? Overall impression The story is narrated from Adso’s point of view, who carefully documented the events that happened during the entire week spent at the abbey.

Brother William of Baskerville and his disciple – Adso of Melk – were invited to the abbey to solve a murder mystery. “The Name of the Rose” is a historical murder mystery, it action taking place in the 14th century, in a distressed Italian abbey. 'Valentina, I've been happy for ten minutes already.' (.) Nothing happened physically, but psychologically everything was there. It's been 9'30 minutes, and there Valentina gets up, she sees that I'm there, discovers me in a certain way, she discovers the cameras and she says to me: 'Is it OK?'. I say 'good!' in a louder voice, 'now it's good we're going to cut soon'. I think then that they need a little more time, a minute later I tell them 'it's fine now we're going to stop', and it doesn't stop. And I start to turn, they kiss, and I tell them in a soft voice, I'm close to them, to now pull away.

I had placed my cameras for 'the end' so I ask them to make a little connection with a kiss, then to have a moment of rest, where the bodies come off. In reference to the sex scene between Valentina Vargas and Christian Slater, director Jean-Jacques Annaud said: 'What interested me was not the moment of the act but it was the tenderness after the act.

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