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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its book-hunting investigation, arcane scholarship and increasingly ominous clues echo the intellectual, candlelit mystery of The Name of the Rose, with a similarly skeptical investigator facing a world of dangerous belief.
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Why this pick
A measured period murder inquiry set within an isolated academy, where rational deduction presses against grief, secrecy and macabre ritual—close to The Name of the Rose’s austere atmosphere and investigative pace.
03
Why this pick
This medieval quest shares the film’s fascination with forbidden learning, religious authority and the hard-won pursuit of reason amid a richly textured historical world.
04
Why this pick
An enlightened outsider investigates killings shadowed by superstition and institutional conspiracy. Its historical setting is more kinetic, but it retains the clash between inquiry, fear and entrenched power.
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Why this pick
A learned medieval monk uses observation and compassion to untangle murders within monastic and political conflicts. It offers the same scholarly detective appeal, though in a gentler, less forbidding register.
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01 / THE STORY
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
William of Baskerville
Adso of Melk
Bernardo Gui
Ubertino da Casale
Berengar
Venantius
Hugh of Newcastle
Monk
