Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer (DVD)

****************************************************************** TITLE : Perfume - The Story of a Murderer RATING: ****½ CAST: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Richard Felix, Birgit Minichmayr, Reg Wilson. NARRATOR: John Hurt DIRECTOR: Tom Tykwer SCREENWRITERS: Tom Tykwer, Andrew Birkin & Bernd Eichinger BASED ON NOVEL: "Perfume - The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind STUDIO: DreamWorks Pictures / Constantin ...
...order to create the ultimate perfume (as the synopsis on the back suggested), though it is also a mesmerizing character study of a most unusual individual. In many ways, he is a creepy chimera, dross of a derelict that speaks little and acts like a murderous mutt on a mission. The truth is that it's impossible to identify with him, and yet we find ourselves curiously following his journey from being an infant left to die by his mother to being a ...

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=== PERFUME === Released in 2006, and directed by Tom Tykwer Perfume is a harrowing tale of the Drama genre. The story is taken from the book 'Perfume' written by Patrick Suskind. === Synopsis === Set in 18th Century France in a small sleepy town a mother gives birth to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. She immediately abandons him in the Parisian fish market, under a filthy market stall rife with rats and the stench of fish. Immediately Jean-Baptiste ...
...search to unlock the ultimate perfume leads him into the depths of depravity and ensuing insanity. Meanwhile master perfumier Giuseppe Baldini takes the young man on as his assistant perfumier. Jean-Baptiste impressed him greatly at his interview, when he is asked to make an original scent. Baldini tells him 12 notes make the perfect perfume and the thirteenth note adds that extra special ingrediant. Baldini is taken aback when Jean-Baptiste concocts ...

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...entitled “perfume” by Patrick Suskind, Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer from first impressions sounded like a good movie to watch, and these first impressions wasn’t wrong. I hadn’t read the book before, or even heard of the book before I saw the film, however from what I have heard about the book, the film seems to follow the book really well. From the title “Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer”, I got the clear ...
...nose takes him to a perfume store, where he sees, and smells for the first time what he thinks to be the perfect smell, this is the young virgin female. He wonders how he could possibly preserve this amazing scent and sets out to learn how to do this. The great perfumer Giuseppe Baldini takes on Grenouille as an assistant, though it is actually him who creates all these wonderful smells. However he can only tell him the basics of capturing smells ...

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...that goes into the latest perfume that is taking Paris by storm and begins to re-create it right in front of his eyes. Baldini gives Grenouille the job he is looking for and Grenouille immediately gets his shop back on track but as well as creating new and great perfumes for Baldini to sell in his store Grenouille has a secret perfume in the making, there is one scent which stands out, one that he cannot bottle but wishes dearly that he could, the ...
...to intends to make a perfume based on this exact scent. Using his talents that he has learned from Baldini on how to extract scents from rose petals and other things Grenouille sets about extracting the scent of beautiful young virginal women to create his master piece. He attempts to do this in a few ways but they all have something in common they leave the women seriously injured or dead. Because of his terrible upbringing Grenouille finds it ...

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...had not created a new perfume for some time. When the young Jean-Baptiste Grenouille appears in his shop claiming to know every scent that goes into the latest perfume that is taking Paris by storm, Baldini shrugs this off an impossible until Jean-Baptiste takes a beaker and re-creates it right in front of his eyes. Jean-Baptiste is given a job with Baldini and helps him get his perfumery back on track but mean time has a secret attempt at making ...
...that Jean-Baptiste loves there is one scent which stands out, one that he cannot bottle but wishes dearly that he could, the pure scent of a virginal young female. Jean-Baptiste has previously learned how to extract the scent from rose petals and decides this is how he will attempt to bottle the scent of a woman but for this they must be dead and Jean-Baptiste who finds distinguishing between right and wrong difficult due to his upbringing begins ...

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...discovers the professional world of perfume industry and realizes it might be a way to obtain what he so yearns for - the perfect perfume. For the first time he actively works on his career as he takes the advantage of delivering lamb skins to a once famous perfume maker Baldini and unlike himself he's bold enough to show his skills in perfume cognition and also production. He proves to be successful even if Baldini's shocked by Grenouille's clumsiness ...
...a major comeback into the perfume industry and to destroy his competitors. Baldini also considers himself to be outsmarting this youth who can be used easily, but in fact it's Grenouille who takes advantage of Baldini to learn the theory of perfume making from him. Important for the story is that Baldini told Grenouille a legend of an ultimate essence, which, if ever found, would crown the 12 contents of a perfume and this has set Grenouille out ...

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...very DVD that I watched, Perfume - The story of a Murderer, should appear as this week's product of the week. It must have been a sign! But was it worth all the effort and stress? The film is an adaptation of a novel by Patrick Suskind. I had not read the book so I had no preconceived opinions of how this film would be, obviously from the title I concluded that it would be about murders and perfume. The film won several awards in rather obscure ...
...according to Baldini 'A great perfume has 3 chords and 12 notes but needs an essential ingredient that makes it stand out from all other perfumes' Unfortunately for the young women of the neighbourhood Jean Baptiste desires to make a scent of such power that every person on earth will be in paradise. The essential ingredient for this perfume being the intoxicating natural smell of a beautiful young girl. This could only be preserved by bringing ...

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Director: Tom Tykwer Screenplay: Andrew Birkin & Bernd Eichinger Novel: Patrick Süskind Genre: Crime - Drama - Thriller Country: Germany/France/Spain Certification: 15+ Language: English Released: 30th April, 2007 (DVD) MAIN CAST: Ben Whishaw (Jean-Baptiste Grenouille) Dustin Hoffman (Giuseppe Baldini) Rachel Hurd-Wood (Laura) Alan Rickman (Richis) Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the streets of 18th century Paris beneath a trade stall, ...
...to him. Alone in the world, he is taken to a crèche where he will spend his first years alienated and bullied by others. A quiet child, Jean-Baptiste is blessed with an extraordinary gift, a sense of smell so acute that he can smell the blossoming of a single flower from yards away. Ironically, Jean-Baptiste was born without a body odour, and it is perhaps his own lack of a scent that stokes his obsession with odours. At the age of 13, Jean-Baptiste ...

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...to learn the art of perfume making. Apprenticed to tanner Giuseppe Baldini (played by Dustin Hoffman) at the age of eight, Grenouille adapts well to the craft and undertakes the quest to isolate and preserve scents. He falls ill with smallpox but makes a somewhat miraculous recovery and decides to travel to Grasse to further his quest. However, upon making this journey he becomes disgusted by the scent of humanity and spends several years in a cave ...
...after having the nightmare of suffocating in his own body odour, he is devastated to discover that he in actual fact was born without a scent. Thereafter, he makes it his mission to procure the perfect scent. He discovers that by killing young girls, caking them in animal fat and allowing them to stew, he can capture the essence of humans. However, in order to acquire the ultimate perfume, he needs thirteen girls. The last of these is intended to ...

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...most ably displayed in Baldini’s perfume shop and workshop, which are both cluttered with every conceivable artefact required to capture aromas. The costume design is also exquisite, from the simplicity of Grenouille’s grubby, roughly woven rags to the intricate embroidery and beading of Laura’s opulent gowns. Tykwer deftly illustrates the yawning gap between rich and poor with his uses of colour, relying heavily on a palette of browns and greys ...
...a much wider, brighter, warmer palette for the rich people’s houses in Grasse. But for all its good looks, the film doesn’t work. It simply can’t get past having an unsympathetic lead. This makes for a visually arresting, but deeply unsatisfying hundred and forty-seven minute running time. The screenplay by Tykwer, Andrew Birkin and Bernd Eichinger struggles to compact a dense literary text into a watchable format. It is beholden to the source material, ...

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...they live on in the perfume that is created so their beauty lives on; the essence of their being still exists. I also thought the costume was great. A lot of research had obviously gone into 18th century French attire for this film, and although the majority of the film is set in the poorest parts of society, so the clothes are simple, the attention to detail is wonderful. The film recreates the dirty, smelly atmosphere of the period, and you see ...
...The theme of perfume is a very unusual concept, and a very interesting subject. You learn a lot about how perfume is made, and because it is teamed with murder, it makes it a most interesting subject. Another contrast is created by the perfume of classes of society; the rich bathe in wonderful scents, whilst the poor are exposed to everything revolting. It also exposes the frivolous nature of the upper classes at the time, spending money on luxury ...

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...how to preserve his favourite perfume - that of young women's skins. He decides to move to Grasse, a small town that specialises in the preservation of scents, where he learns the tools of his trade. Then a number of young women begin to go missing, only to be found dead some time later. Is Grenouille able to make the ultimate scent and at what price? I've long wanted to see this film, partly because of the subtitle, The Story of a Murderer, and ...
...of translating a book about perfume (not an easy thing to represent at the best of times) into a film about perfume, I think he did a superb job. The film is long, but it is so full of colour and beautiful cinematography that I found it totally absorbing all the way through. Two of the girls that Grenouille are interested in have beautiful red hair and clear skin and the camera frequently picks out their best features, which is oddly compelling. ...

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...und die Kaiserin, Der) Perfume - The cast: Ben Whishaw - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Adult) Alvaro Roque - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (5yrs old) Frank Lefeuvre - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (12yrs old) Dustin Hoffman - Guiseppe Baldini Alan Rickman - Richis Rachel Hurd-Wood - Laura Narrator - John Hurt The Nose - Played brilliantly by Ben Whishaw's nose The story, (as courtesy of IMDB <- Because yes, I am still that lazy): "Jean-Baptiste ...
...the exact components of any perfume concoction) with Dustin Hoffman (who was a perfumist?). Once, Jean-Baptiste, had found a scent that was so heavily, so divine, that it consumed his mind, his every waking thought - but, it was lost to him forever. He became obsessed with finding a way to preserve scent so that he would never again experience such a loss. Unfortunately, there are many dark things he has to do to find the method… and this is where ...

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The cast of the film include main actor Ben Whishaw who has starred in recent films such as Bright star, Brideshead Revisited. He dominates proceedings in this film. Not one of Dustin Hoffman's best roles playing Baldini who is the perfumer. ==Plot Outline== as stated on imdb website 'Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate ...
...type prison where a male prisoner is taken and dragged by chains, publically humiliated and sentenced to punishment via a wooden beating and iron rods. The reason behind this is that at the end of the movie the same guy is in imaging himself as being sentenced and potentially going to die. _The opening scene_ describes the rest of the film well in that during the 18th century a 5th born child Jean Grenouille was born into a fish market arena. The ...

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How on earth do you bring to life a story that's simple concept is a sense unavailable to the medium it's being portrayed on? Smellovision is one of those daft ideas that someone came up with around the same time someone thought it'd be easy to make 3D films, thankfully it never came into being. A film based so closed to the concept of smell was clearly going to be a hard task for director Tom Twyker. Yet Patrick Suskind had managed to write the ...
...That is perhaps the best thing about the film, the way that the imagery is meant to awaken the senses to the point of creating almost mimicking those smells in our mind. The story itself is remarkably grim albeit based on a great core set of events. The conceopt was well flseshed out although perhaps a little too much, the film was a little on the long side for my taste. A nice twist towards the end rewarded my patience however. ...

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