Perfume : the Story of a Murderer

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Call Number: DVD Drama Perfume
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Based on the novel "Das parfum," by Patrick Süskind.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.
Special features: The story of Perfume.
Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman, John Hurt.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills. An opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist Giuseppe Baldini results in his immediate hire into a promising new career. His successes in perfume mixing are negated by a blinding obsession for capturing the sublime beauty of the human soul, which in his twisted logic requires the killing of young women to reduce their body fats to essential oils for the ultimate perfume.
DVD ; Region 1 ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., surround.
Contents: Parfum.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Excellent! submitted by baroquen on December 13, 2011, 3:56pm Great movie! Dark and engaging, and does a fantastic job of bringing something as elusive as the sense of smell to the screen.

Dark and mesmerising submitted by Sudar82 on July 21, 2020, 6:02pm This movie has a dark antihero , you will feel no smpathy towards!!

Murder Smells submitted by OlfactoryBookworm on July 2, 2022, 11:25pm The "scentless apprentice" that inspired Kurt Cobain to write a song.