Umberto Eco's novel Il pendolo di Foucault (1988) is an immensely ambitious, multi-layered and allusive book. The film contains an initial account and examination of this new book, which is as contentious as it is controversial. Eco's publisher and prominent Italian critics have their say and, of course, the author. He talks about the eight years of work on the book, about the two central images that stand at the beginning of his novel, and about what this story of magic, occultism, and delusion has to do with us and our present.
Maria Knilli
Director
Beate Pinkerneil
Writer
McQueen74%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
The Class of ‘9271%
Sherman's March65%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Directed by John Ford70%
Looking for Richard68%
Extremis69%
Public Speaking70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
21 Up74%
180° South72%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Report61%
Fata Morgana65%
Diego Maradona74%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me85%
The Cheshire Murders65%
