tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post435062784248510484..comments2024-03-23T02:59:40.776+00:00Comments on Euro Crime: The Oxford Murders - filmKaren (Euro Crime)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03678348280806062648noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-21896627183305106902008-04-10T07:59:00.000+01:002008-04-10T07:59:00.000+01:00Really enjoyed this film which meticulously follow...Really enjoyed this film which meticulously follows the book. Elijah Wood and John Hut were marvellous as expected, but Leonor was very convincing too. Thoroughly recommended.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-47310672231296245352008-03-30T16:21:00.000+01:002008-03-30T16:21:00.000+01:00I've just seen this dreadful film (in Paris). I do...I've just seen this dreadful film (in Paris). I don't know the novel, but the film is wordy and excessively complicated in a completely unengaging way. What a shame.Russell Goulbournehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08122694608334976196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-87422624597065289432008-03-11T09:45:00.000+00:002008-03-11T09:45:00.000+00:00It seems that this may be one of those films where...It seems that this may be one of those films where there has been considerable fiddling with the plot for the sake of making a film.<BR/>Here is what I wrote in my database - may give people a better idea of what the book was about.<BR/><I>A young Argentinian mathematician comes to Oxford to study, and boards with an elderly landlady whose dead husband was a maths professor. A few weeks after his arrival his landlady is discovered murdered A mathematical symbol is discovered next to her body. A second murder follows and again a symbol is left by the murderer. Are these symbols part of a mathematical sequence? Will the murders continue until the sequence is exhausted?</I><BR/>Part of the attraction of the book is the mathematical puzzles that it poses, but at the same time readers complained that it was too mathematical for them.<BR/>It won the prestigious Planeta prize.Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.com