Ecco Chamber
I dearly love this video when novelist Umberto Eco was asked an audience question about the filming of his famous book, The Name of the Rose. I love it for two reasons – because of his unexpected first response, and because of his unexpected second response.
As a bit of background to the question and response -- if you haven’t read the novel, it’s (like all Ecco’s books) deeply complex, twisting a range of themes, convoluted, interesting, confusing and eloquent. The 1986 movie, which starred Sean Connery and Christian Slater, was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who directed “Black and White in Color” which won the 1977 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film), and adapted by Andrew Birkin and Gerard Brach. It’s a dark, moody, intricate film that centers on a series of unexplained deaths at a monastery in 1327, investigated by one of the monks and his novice. Ecco’s story deals with religion, logic, faith, language and much more.
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