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A colorful and beautifully filmed fantasy about a man whose sense of smell drives him in his search for creating the perfect perfume. The story traces his life from birth in a Parisian fish market to public orphanage to being sold to a tannery and subsequently sold to Dustin Hoffman a perfumer past his prime.
Grenouille (Wishaw) is cursed with olfactory powers that supersede all his other senses and controls his life. He labors for Hoffman in search of a way to capture the essence of all things. Hoffman tells him a legend of an Egyptian perfume that makes the world "see paradise" for just a moment only to launch Grenouille off to create such a scent. Unfortunately, Grenouille finds this scent requires the essence of women which can only be collected under extreme circumstances.
The cinematography, set design, and art direction are spot-on with an international cast giving excellent performances. Hoffman (in Bonus Features) said this was "the biggest" film yet done by Germany. (Tykwer spent four years on the project before filming commenced.)
This is a visually beautiful film with a very unlikely storyline is kept on-track and made compelling by John Hurt's illuminating narration. This is one nice flight of fantasy. Enjoy.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
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Liked this until the last half hour which, in my estimation, is some of the worst tripe on celluloid.
Love Twyker's other films though.
I can NOT imagine a good film, a successfull superficial one, yes.
I did not see it, I saw some pieces of it.
I did not see it.
...of translating it into a good film...
Regards
BF
Was brillantly new and excellent, somewhere at this point it start to be a bore.
As for the film...
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
h
Probably the most people ever used in an orgy scene.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
un-erotic scene ever filmed. One could imagine a director offstage calling out, "Okay now, guys, thrust on my 'One... Two... Three!'"
I liked Perfume: the Story of a Murderer, it has an interesting premise that was fun to watch but in the end I got bored also I felt Hoffman was wooden, not really convincing. I felt the movie was so far fetched it was almost a comedy. Still if you like this sort of thing (as I do) it is worth a look for all the reasons mentioned above.
In 'bonus' there were comments as to whether this novel could be a movie. Tykwer had a vision and made it happen.
Definitely not "paint by numbers" as one of the producers quipped.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
... the final scene where everyone starts screwing in front of the crucifixion tableau was hilarious and rather subtracted from any other point of view than comedic. IMO.
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