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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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R,2hrs 27min
Genres:
Action,Drama
Released:
December 27, 2006
Director:
Tom Tykwer
Distributor:
Dreamworks
Starring:
Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Dustin Hoffman  ...more
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Synopsis: An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). ... Full Synopsis
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Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
This is a dark, dark, dark film, focused on an obsession so complete and lonely it shuts out all other human experience. You may not savor it, but you will not stop watching it, in horror and fascination. Full Review
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56
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out of 100
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Ben Whishaw
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Alan Rickman
Antoine Richis
Dustin Hoffman
Giuseppe Baldini, Guiseppe Baldini, Baldini, Giuseppe
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Laura, Laura Richis, Laure Richis
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