Upon his arrival at Abby, William of Baskerville, an ambitious courageous and intelligent Franciscan monk, who enjoys with great power in solving the mysteries, has been called for investigating on the mysterious murder of monks, the thing that challenges him, as he suffers from a series of bloodshed.
Umberto Eco seems unduly dismissive of a film that had to excise his postmodern trappings and scholarly sidebars. But it hasn't just been stripped down to a tawdry whodunit. Here, albeit in a streamlined way, the whydunit matters as much, if not more.
