Review of The Name of the Rose (1986) by Sheila Benson for Los Angeles Times — 26 Jan 1994
Yes, it is splendid that anyone would take on so formidable a project as Eco’s 500-page chambered nautilus of a novel. Yes, this certainly feels like a 14th-Century Italian abbey, bleak, drafty and forbidding.
Yes, it looks like it too--the 14th-Century as cast by Federico Fellini, every face a grotesque. But no, sad to say, it isn’t a perfectly marvelous film.
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This review of The Name of the Rose (1986) was written by Sheila Benson and published by Los Angeles Times on 26 Jan 1994.
The Name of the Rose has generally received positive reviews.
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