A deeply mesmerizing exploration of one man's desperate search for his own humanity, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, is very much more than your average serial-killer story.
Based on the German bestseller by Patrick S u skind and directed by Tom Tykwer (best known to American audiences for Run Lola Run), the film is meticulously true to both source and setting, plopping the viewer smack-dab into the middle of the bustling, over-crowded, stench of 18th-century France.
Where Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette filled the screen with the cotton-candy colors and fashions of the palace elite, Perfume delves into the realm of the lowest of the low -- an unwanted babe born to an unwed fishmonger, delivered amid filth and discarded to die in a pile of fish guts, who nonetheless finds it within his small self to cry out for life, thus condemning his mother to death and himself to an orphanage.
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. me likey
2. Very Cool.
Looking forward to seeing this. Hollywood needs to put out more thought provoking movies. This sounds very interesting 3.
I love the book Perfume (read it twice!) and agree with the reviewer that it is worth reading, whether before or after seeing the film, even though I haven't had the chance to see the film yet. It is extraordinary and unique.
I found it gripping. Additionally, Run Lola Run was an amazing film. This review prompts me to go back and look up Tykwer's other films.
I follow certain directors but until now he has not been one of them. How cool to get a chance to see what he has done now that it has been pointed out to me that he participates in his films in every way, including the music. That really makes a movie lover's heart soar.
Thanks for a great review!
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