Sniff up: Jean-Baptiste is one of the most deliciously fiendish protagonists ever created in this brilliantly imaginitive story. An 18th century psycho killer cum super villian, nicely cinematographed & scored. A funk monster is created from J-B's extraordinary sense of smell combined with his social inadequacy. More evil than James Brown and smellier than Patrick Bateman's aftershave cabinet. He is both driven & crippled by his hooter.

As a supervillian he has no sickly sweet nemesis to stop him running amok. Sniffing girls pantyhoes left right & centre, unchecked. Dipping his fingers in shit pies and inhaling the vapours like a decades long smoker wheezing on an electronic cigarette, addicted, trying to inhale that hit.

Dustin Hoffman's finger wagging Italian perfumer is enjoyable and there is the occasional macabre giggle.

For such a long film it never gets dull; must be good!

Take a whiff on that, jack.

Yesterday I had the privilege to see this movie in a small theatre accompanied by an "Scent DJ". So whenever there was a (key) scene in the movie that concerned a certain smell (and in this movie almost all the key scenes regard scents) the audience would also experience this. And that's simply awesome and totally works with this film! It really adds something to this film and it was an outstanding experience.

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This was a rather bizarre film. For the first half it trundles along as an engaging and a times disturbing thriller. Whishaw gives an interesting, endearing yet frightening performance and the supporting cast all do well enough. Then in the last 45 minutes it suddenly shifts gear and moves from disturbing to surreal.

I have to admit that it lost me at that point. I don't feel qualified to say whether it ended well or badly because frankly I didn't understand what the hell was going on.

It's a shame because it is an accomplished piece of film making. Brilliantly shot, beautifully scored and as I've said, featured a great lead.

I can't recommend this because it felt a little too over-the-top in the final act, but equally I wouldn't suggest avoiding it as it was certainly involving.

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El Perfume: Historia de un Asesino, es una hi storia diferente... No cabe duda de qué ésta película es de esas que te mantienen atento, de las que no te quieres perder ni un segundo de la trama... la ves con una constante sed de conocer cada movimiento que hará Jean-Baptiste para lograr su loca fantasía.

Sniff up: Jean-Baptiste is one of the most deliciously fiendish protagonists ever created in this brilliantly imaginitive story. An 18th century psycho killer cum super villian, nicely cinematographed & scored. A funk monster is created from J-B's extraordinary sense of smell combined with his social inadequacy. More evil than James Brown and smellier than Patrick Bateman's aftershave cabinet. He is both driven & crippled by his hooter.

As a supervillian he has no sickly sweet nemesis to stop him running amok. Sniffing girls pantyhoes left right & centre, unchecked. Dipping his fingers in shit pies and inhaling the vapours like a decades long smoker wheezing on an electronic cigarette, addicted, trying to inhale that hit.

Dustin Hoffman's finger wagging Italian perfumer is enjoyable and there is the occasional macabre giggle.

For such a long film it never gets dull; must be good!

Take a whiff on that, jack.

Well done, but did not live up to the book.

I have more to say but I want to get something up now as I am over two days as it is on posting this.

For now I will say I liked a lot of this on technical levels but rarely did I enjoy watching this movie.

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This is a very unique movie. I read the book a long time ago and when I found out there was a movie I couldn't wait to see it. I was surely interested in seeing how the ending would be handled.... I enjoyed how the movie was narrated as it draws you in and the suspense builds. But the movie is not really a 'thriller' as 'the story of a murderer' would imply but merely the story of one mans life...a story of the senses... Watch it if you dare! LOL

Props to the late great Roger Ebert for bringing to my attention the excellent audiobook edition of Patrick Suskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer years ago.

Tykwer's film version is a worthy adaptation, uncompromising in its R-ratedness and especially memorable for a wild ending.

Supongo qué hay mucho hilo que cortar en cuanto a esta historia, pero la película es una experiencia que te deja muchas emociones encontradas, sus imágenes sensoriales son lo más llamativo de ella y su dirección es altamente cuidada, aun así, sus interpretes podían dar mucho más y aportar un nuevo grado a la historia, pero quedan en interpretaciones decentes, creo qué al final es lo que queda de la historia, una interesante y decente película.