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A* ADAPTATION
by leong (movies profile)
Jun 12, 2008
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18 people found this review helpful
There are many recent adaptation that blow off our mind and we just hate it. I must say this is one of the coolest adaptation that stands beside LOTR franchise.
The story is simple. Born in a fishmarket and sold into slavery, all Grenuille knows is his early years is the smell of effluent and rank decay. When he gets a job making deliveries in Paris, he discovers something entirely new -smelling sweet babes.
He follows a lovely red head home, suffocates her, smell her, and somehow this gives him the idea of making perfumes from the essence of beatiful dead women.
The difficulty of this film is to portray this story adaptation on screen. Film is a visual and auditory experience. Smell is obviously can't be seen or heard. Kubrick even claims this book is "umfilmable". Credits goes to young director Tom Tykwer. He really makes you feels that you're smelling the world through the nose of Grenuille's ultra-sensetive snout.
Needless to say, this is a deeply weird film. It is also deliciously decadent.We may not drink in the smells of Grenuille's unfortunate victims, but given the ravishing beauty of the girls, we can certainly understand the man's compulsion to immprtalise them through his art. This whole smell thing seems more than a metaphor for the powerful and mysterious force that culd draws women and men.
VERDICT: A *outstanding.
*Romantic and grotesque, FUN! |
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