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Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer (Single Disc Edition) [DVD]

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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.


Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.351


MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.59 x 7.48 inches; 2.88 Ounces


Item model number ‏ : ‎ P921501000


Director ‏ : ‎ Tom Tykwer


Media Format ‏ : ‎ Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, PAL


Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 12 minutes


Release date ‏ : ‎ September 17, 2007


Actors ‏ : ‎ Ben Whishaw, Francesc Albiol, Gonzalo Cunill, Roger Salvany, Andrés Herrera


Subtitles: ‏ ‎ English


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    • A close friend recommended this movie to me because we share a romantic ...
A close friend recommended this movie to me because we share a romantic fascination with scents. But regardless of that fascination, this movie was fantastic! The cinematography, acting, and dialog were all captivating. This movie, through the cinematography, romanticizes life in France during that era, as well as shows you the darker underbelly. It really showcases that none of the luxuries we enjoy come without someone we don’t see suffering. I would write a ton more, but I don’t want to spoil it for anyon reading this before watching the movie. All I want to say now before I go, is that the casting choices were perfect. The late Alan Rickman, and the marvelous Dustin Hoffman is in it. That alone got my attention 😂 Then you have John Hurt narrating...my God; I rented this movie through Amazon video; but I’m afraid that I must buy it on DVD 😂 Enjoy! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2018 by Mel
    • Best transfer of the movie
Really loved the 4k transfer of this movie. I upgraded from the Japanese bluray version which looked good but was not consistent. The 4k disc is region free but the menu is in German. Subtitles are not forced and there is an english audio track. However, interviews and special features are in german with no english subs. Still great considering you get great pq and sq. I did not test the 2nd bluray disc but im assuming its region B. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2021 by Mark William
    • An ambitious film, which lacks a vital component.
The film, "Perfume", directed and cowriten by German director, Tom Tykwer, is based on a novel I read shortly after it was published in 1985. I recall then thinking that is was an odd story, which seemed to have few cinematic virtues. This movie tends to confirm my point. The first thing which strikes me is that the dialogue is thin as a weak broth, made from old bones. I find myself in disagreement with several professional critics when I say that the most enjoyable scenes in the film are those with Dustin Hoffman as the old Parisian perfumer, Baldini. Those scenes have at least some reasonable amount of exposition by a character rather than the clinical voice of John Hurt who does the narration, an unseen voice. Some critics complained about Hoffman's over the top acting, a bit too "kitch". Well, maybe it was, but it seemed to be one of the few traces of real life, however "overdone." My strongest memory from the novel was the discovery that the main character, the infant who was to be given the name Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, played by relatively unknown actor Ben Whishaw, had no smell whatsoever. This comes very early in the novel, setting the scene for what is to motivate the principle character throughout the story. This revelation does not come out in the film until about 2/5 of the way through it, leaving us with no strong explanation for why Grenouille is so entranced by the smell of the young apricot seller (the Wikipedia plot summary says plums. They look far more like apricots to me.) The unique absence of all sent from the child is replaced in the film by its beginning with a scene where Grenouille is sentenced to a horrible execution. Most of the remainder of the film is a flashback about his life leading up to that scene, which plays out in a manner which should confirm (if nothing up to that point does not drive home this point) that the story is a fantasy. But it's a fantasy based on a very slim extrapolation of reality. What if a human had as acute a smell as a dog, for example. This is played out when Grenouille demonstrates for himself that his extract of the fragrance of his first victim is recognized by that victim's dog. We are reminded of this evidence later in the film. For those who are annoyed by spoilers in reviews, you may wish to stop now. I found several scenes in the film which were simply too unrealistic to accept, similar to a Sci Fi movie about people in outer space where they can hear sounds in the vacuum of space or they walk as if there were gravity where there can't be any. The most jarring was in the execution scene, where, having been stripped to the waist and chained to the wall of a locked cell, Grenouille manages to retain possession of not only his vial of perfume made from the 13 essences of the fragrance of his 13 victims, but he retains a handkerchief by which he can disperse the fragrance to the crowd assembled to view his execution. Perhaps the whole unreality of the scene is signaled when Grenouille arrives at the execution stage dressed like a dandy, in a carriage fit for royalty, instead of the hay cart we are so familiar with from the French Revolution. Less "unreal", but similarly jarring was the scene in Baldini's laboratory where Grenouille creates an improvement over a perfume Baldini was trying to copy. It was reasonable to believe that Grenouille's talent enabled him to identify the five or six components of this perfume, but as he himself states, he knows the smells, but he does not know the names or how to capture them. So how does Grenouille assemble the components he needs by selecting sealed containers, with labels. The business as Grenouille enters Baldini's laboratory suggests he can distinguish each of the smells from the hundreds of containers by smell alone. I suspect that would be beyond the capabilities of even a bloodhound. Bottom line is that the film is about the sense of smell, which may be virtually impossible to convey in a film. But wait, wasn't there a very successful film entitled "The Scent of a Woman" which seemed to succeed in conveying that idea. The very slow pace of this film, with precious little dialogue to speak of, tends to be just a bit boring. Which is odd, because my memory of the novel was that it was anything but boring. Here, Hoffman, pulls off a good scene or two, and Alan Rickman is almost totally wasted, with very little dialogue. If the roles of Narrator and Antoine Richis, the 13th victim's father, were reversed, at least we would have been treated to Rickman's delightfully serious sounding voice. Hurt's voice seemed to lack character, the same way the principle character lacked a fragrance. The proper bookends of the film perhaps should have been Grenouille's triumph in finding a proper fragrance to replace his own lack of one. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2012 by B. Marold
    • This is one of the best films I have ever seen!
Huge thumbs-up on this film. As an independent filmmaker there are few films I find worth five stars let alone leave me mystified and anxious to rev up the old camera and give it a go myself. This film is amazing! Thought-provoking for starters, and that's putting it lightly. The entire storyline is enrapturing, and what begins as a reality show ends up as a fairytale. You have to see it to understand why I was so mesmerized by it, as was my husband. We have watched it twice, and are getting ready to see it again--it is that riveting. The cinematography is astounding! Brilliant in so many ways. The script was exceptional, and the directing even better. I can't say enough good about this film. I'm amazed that I didn't hear more about it when distributed. Actually, I'm shocked. It has every attribute that a film needs to be a blockbuster award winning film. Hm, politics? Could be. Dustin Hoffman's role is short and sweet, but appropriate. His character was definitely engaging. Alan Rickman also performed credibly without damaging the delicacy of his character. The main actor was absolutely superb in every way, but it was a compilation of fine acting, directing, and cinematography that made this film stand out above all other serial killer films. Additionally they did a fabulous job of recreating the period pieces to make this film so true to life you actually feel as if you are living in the time. I will look for more of Mr. Tykwer's films in the future. If you're a serial killer addict, this is the film for you. Different and memorable. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014 by bmbranno
    • Excellent movie and don't know how I did not hear about it until recently.
Excellent movie and don't know how I did not hear about it until recently. The acting and writing and the cast was tremendous and the concept was strange, odd and creepy. A beautifully shot period piece and as strange as it was great.
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017 by Thomas A. Markel

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