Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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- Synopsis
- 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 ......
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- Starring
- Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood
- Director(s)
- Tom Tykwer
- Distributor(s)
- Dream Works
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 147 min.
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Critic Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
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
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
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
Variety | Derek ElleyAdd Critic to Favorites
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
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