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Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer [DVD]

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Condition
Used - Good
Color
Color
Format
PAL
Runtime
2 hours and 27 minutes
Release date
April 30, 2007
Studio
Pathe Distribution Ltd

Description

Tale of murder and intrigue explores the under-reported sense of smell in a tale from the blockbuster novel by Patrick Süsskind. Grenouille is a baby born into squalor. Uniquely, he is born with no scent of his own - causing his own mother and a string of surrogate mothers to shun him. The result of his not having a smell, however, is that he develops the strongest sense of smell imaginable. He becomes apprentice to a famed perfumer (Dustin Hoffman) who hones his craft and makes his fortune from the talented waif. Obsessed with wringing the essence out of anything with a smell, the idea soon occurs to Grenouille that a beautiful, fine smelling woman might make the perfect tea bag for a vat of wonderful perfume. Things take a dark turn for the smell-free youth, however and, in his quietly desperate, compulsive search for new odours, nothing can stand between him and the scents he wishes to acquire.

Specs 11

Format PAL
Runtime 2 hours and 27 minutes
Color Color
Number Of Discs 2
Manufacturer Pathe Distribution Ltd
Aspect Ratio 1.781
Package Dimensions 7.56 x 5.2 x 0.63 inches; 2.08 ounces
Media Format PAL

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The secret behind the perfume
The story setting is in the 18th century France yet the exact year did not mention in details. I assume it is in the late 18th century. (After the demise of Louis XV, France, on the verge of science revolution while bearing the King's luxurious Rococo deep debt, lived in a contradictory world (Rich & poor, chaos & order, Sir & servants, genius & freak, and blessing & curse.)) Grenouille, born in a stench of filthy market, has a gifted nose. Yet, his life is not so blessed with love that he was immediately abandoned by his mother. Year by year, he was obsessed with olfactory excitements, and his uniqueness naturally draws a line between he and the ordinaries. The devoid of his social incompetence is also a barrier to connect the humanity, and ironically such barrier seems common among genius or freaks?! He was sold as a slave working in a tannery. One day, his foray to a city introduces his nostril to numerous enchanting smells with his eyes open, hunting the scent. Soon, it leads to a tragedy to his first victim, a red-haired virgin (red symbolizes passion and love in drama), and the others. Knowing being a perfumer would be able to preserve scents makes Grenouille's heart speeds up. He proves himself to recreate and to concoct the fragrance when opportunity favors him at Giuseppe Baldini's (Dustin Hoffman). O~ A lung full of bliss, le parfum, imbues one's soul. Baldini is amazed by his power, and exploits him in exchanging sublime perfume formulae. (In 18th-century France, perfume is an opulent merchandise and brings a lucrative business.) True beauty that lies within and radiates through body aura is what Grenouille seeks for his perfect perfume. Each woman he captured has a unique quality. He made a perfect perfume by using the essence of the women. Eventually, he was caught and yet escaped from headman's axe with his pheromonic perfect perfume which impulses men and women to perform a big orgy. He could have used his perfect perfume to preserve his own olfactory fiefdom, but it would be a hollow victory for there's no love/soul left to him. How much he wishes he could be loved and be recognized. Without it, he has nothing to live for; at the end, he melts himself with his perfect perfume into those 12 women's destiny. Grenouille, theatrically, wears no scent as if a stray ghost that doesn't exist nor is identified. The movie director reveals this secret in the middle of the movie, to which makes the protagonist not been immediately labeled as a freak as in the novel. The director would like his audiences to, imperceptibly, learn him better. In a literary perspective, it is inexplicable to say Grenouille is a real murderer/killer because he doesn't really enjoy killing. Rather, his motive is using his inhumanly focus on scent, the sole meaning of himself, to preserve 12 virgins' pristine state. (A metaphor, a message of what he longs for.) His character is more implicit than explicit. A metaphor which carries different meanings to different people. His character can be viewed as a message, a representative of one particular aspect of the feeling of love. Often mistaken for love itself, the hunger, the desperation, and the uncontrollable urge to surrender oneself is the most magical, as well as the most dangerous display among all symptoms of love. However, it is much like the composition of a cuisine dish: it can never have just one ingredient. Love needs a balance. Love encompasses understanding, compassion and a great level of tenderness. This movie reveals the contradiction between extreme and balance. It's the extreme that drives everything forward (and backward sometimes) but without balance, even something as beautiful as love can turn into disasters. The perfume, same idea as clothing, and sometimes fake characters, once you get hooked...it might backfire on you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2007 by Lady_C
Ben Whishaw and Tom Tykwer are a stellar team
This film is another of many directed by Tom Tykwer, a particularly inventive German director who works frequently with American actors. There's also a book,which I haven't read. Ben Whishaw is a very talented actor, who has appeared in a great many different roles, including Ariel in Shakespeare's The Tempest, with Helen Mirren as Prospera; Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion, about John Keats, the great British Romantic poet who died very young and his girlfriend, Fanny Brawne; and done a superb job in each of these very different roles, Whishaw also appears in Tykwer's Cloud Atlas, as a musician. In Perfume, Whishaw plays a man raised in utter poverty in 18th Century Paris after his mother gives birth to him in the Paris market and tries to throw him away in the garbage. He is called Grenouille (Frog) from birth. He survives relentlessly because something is driving him to persist in spite of neglect, abuse and savage attacks in the worst slums of Paris. He is driven by a love of smells: he makes no distinction between good and bad smells, just any smell fascinates him. Finally he accidentally bumps into The Smell he's been searching for when he makes a delivery to a formerly famous Paris Perfumer (Dustin Hoffman) who is down on his luck, and Hoffman realizes thiat this grubby, inarticulate person is a genius who will save Hoffman's declining business. What Hoffman's character doesn't realize is that Grenouille wants to distill young women into perfume. It's not clear just how this might be done in real life; all we know is that Grenouille stalks them, kills them, and hangs them up in a huge tub of some liquid element until out of each body a small vial of perfume emerges. He moves to the town of Grasse, where the French perfumers thrive: the town has become rich from their success. There he proceeds to capture his victims and make them into different bottled scents. Finally his evil doings are discovered and he is sentenced to a public execution (decapitation) in front of an immense crowd of angry Perfumers in the city. I can't reveal just how he rescues himself from this situation, which is too bad because it's one of the best moments in any movie I've seen . . . the entire town suddenly adores him when he waves a handkerchief doused with his girl-distilled perfume at them. This book is based on a novel I haven't read. Barbara Guetti ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2013 by Barbara J. Guetti
Great movie
This is an original, unique and great concept for a movie. I highly recommend it. The main kid is a great actor and should be commended highly!
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025 by Miss Angela
Great Thriller!
OMG! This movie is a definite must!!! I don't want to give anything away, but it's a jaw dropper! Not for children.
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2025 by Diane
Not my favorite but not bad.
Too graphics in the beginning of the movie. There is nudity but not a bad story over all.
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2025 by Al Tone
Uniquely upsetting
A very different movie. It is believable while over the top. A masterpiece of historical drama and fantasy. Not for the weak of mind.
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2025 by Matthew Moleski
Intriguing Tale
Rather offbeat subject material about the magical lure and power of smells intertwined with a tale of a murdering but genius madman. The world of how smell and fragrance can hypnotize and sway human emotions it part of the attraction of this tale, at least for me. I have watched this a few times, and would it not be a wonderful thing if some perfect and unspeakably suggestive perfume could give you power over your fellow beings. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2024 by Richard A. Young
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