Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Critic Reviews
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This is a dark, dark, dark film, focused on an obsession so complete and lonely it shuts out all other human experience. You may not savor it, but you will not stop watching it, in horror and fascination.Read the full review
Perfume misses some of the subtler base notes of Süskind's creepier, more self-aware original, but Whishaw and Tykwer blend the movie into something quite heady in its own bottle.Read the full review
The seductive, sensory prose of Patrick Suskind's bestseller, "Perfume," reaches the screen with loads of visual panache but only intermittent magic.Read the full review
Long regarded as unfilmable, Patrick Suskind's 1985 novel "Perfume" has finally reached the screen in a blockbuster production that succeeds reasonably well in achieving what many said was beyond the scope of cinema: conveying the world of scent and smell.Read the full review
Perfume is a pitch-black period epic of squalor and enterprise.Read the full review
Deeply flawed though it may be, Perfume is a challenging motion picture, and one whose impressions are not easily shaken.Read the full review
Perfume is ultimately an unmistakable failure, but there's a strange majesty to its epic overreaching. It can be faulted for many things, but not for lacking the courage of its convictions.Read the full review
It's simultaneously arty, arcane and nasty.Read the full review
Weaves a sensual spell of extraordinary delicacy, then sustains it -- up to a point.Read the full review
What's missing is less a sense of the protagonist's inner nose (which is very well-trammeled) as a sense of his inner life, motivation or desire.Read the full review
