Tom Tykwer | 141 mins | DVD | 15 / R
Recent adaptation of Patrick Süskind’s popular novel, often considered unfilmable because of its focus on the sense of smell. Tykwer covers for that with strong cinematography, with sumptuously rich visuals and a judicious use of close-ups to evoke beauty or disgust as appropriate (the early birth scene in a fish market is particularly rancid — do not watch this right after eating!)
Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman give typically brilliant supporting performances, and Ben Whishaw is fairly notable in the virtually mute lead role. John Hurt’s narration is also excellent; he may well have the best narrative voice known to film. The ending is pretty bizarre, yet possibly very appropriate; certainly, it raises the whole story up to the level of legend.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is on BBC Two tonight, 2nd May 2015, at 11:50pm.
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This really sounds like quite an unusual film.
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It certainly is, but all the more interesting for it, I think.
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Hopefully I’ll see it as soon as I can.
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Fantastic score in this film by the way, really evocative music. One of my favourite scores. Shame this film has such a poor release history on HD. Deserves a blu ray with lots of extras someday.
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I confess I don’t really recall the score now. I definitely need to re-watch it, anyway. Didn’t realised it had such a patchy HD history, which is a shame, though I do have it on DVD already.
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Yep my copy is a DVD too. I looked into upgrading awhile ago and was surprised how tricky it was to find a HD copy.
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