The Man from Rome

The Man from Rome (Spanish: La piel del tambor) is a 2022 thriller film directed by Sergio Dow, being an adaptation of the novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte. It stars Richard Armitage, Amaia Salamanca, Fionnula Flanagan, Franco Nero and Paul Guilfoyle.

Plot

The plot tracks Father Quart, a priest investigating a hacker infiltration into the Vatican.

Cast

Production

The Man from Rome is an adaptation of the Arturo Pérez Reverte's 1995 novel La piel del tambor, which had already spawned a 2007 television adaptation, Quart, starring Roberto Enríquez and Ana Álvarez.

A Spanish-Italian-Colombian co-production, the film is a Piel del tambor AIE (Enrique Cerezo PC), Fundación Enic Producciones and Augusto Color SRL production, with the participation of Amazon Prime Video and RTVE. Principal photography in Spain and Italy had already wrapped in February 2022. Shooting locations in Seville included the Plaza de San Francisco. Aitor Mantxola worked as a cinematographer whereas Pablo Blanco and Miguel Ángel Prieto took over film editing. Roque Baños composed the music.

Release

The film had a pre-screening in Seville on 13 October 2022. It was theatrically released in Spain on 21 October 2022.

Reception

Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla rated the film 1 out of 5 stars, considering that the film is conceived as a "stiff, superficial and formulaic entertainment for sleepy audiences, a cinema of automatic manners, [with] cliché characters and [a] second-rate international cast".

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas rated the film with 75 points ("good"), deeming the film to be "very enjoyable and easier to digest than the novel it is based on".

Oti Rodríguez Marchante of ABC rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, praising the ability to fit all the novel's plots, subplots and characters into just an hour and a half of footage.

Accolades

See also

• List of Spanish films of 2022

References

1. The First Man in Rome
2. List of Rome (TV series) episodes
3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (film)
4. Rome
5. List of Rome (TV series) characters
6. Rome (TV series)
7. Ancient Rome
8. Roman Empire
9. The Roman Mysteries
10. Sack of Rome
11. Fall of the Western Roman Empire
12. Claudius' expulsion of Jews from Rome
13. Homosexuality in ancient Rome
14. Roman Kingdom
15. Live from Rome
16. Roman Republic
17. Sexuality in ancient Rome
18. Rome Statute
19. List of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes
20. Club of Rome