Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Summary:
An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jea... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Ben Whishaw - (Jean-Baptiste Grenouille)
Alan Rickman - (Antoine Richis)
Rachel Hurd-Wood - (Laura)
Dustin Hoffman - (Baldini, Giuseppe)
Karoline Herfurth - (The Plum Girl)
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Review:
Releasing a costume epic in the thick of Oscar season is a calculated risk -- it can pay big dividends in terms of prestige-by-proximity, but if it doesn't get marketed as an outside-the-box genre buster, it'll just get buried. This was the unfortunate fate of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, which should have also gotten more attention b... Continue >>
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