Perfume: The Story of a Murderer User Review

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer reviews

Rating

2/5

Author

fedya_dolokhov

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Best thing

Use of light and Colour

Worst Thing

Voice Over

Review

The individual scenes of Perfume were often beautiful, well composed and painterly. The film however was hamstrung by an unnecessary and intrusive voice over. Every time I started to become absorbed in the story in chips John Hurt and theatrically runs over the action for the partially sighted. The characters� dialogue was both stilted and anachronistic; the editing static and uncinematic. A film with pretentions as large as Perfume�s needs to charm and intrigue an audience to keep their goodwill, it had totally lost mine after the FIRST hour. By the end I was willing Jean-Baptiste

to hurry-up and brain the last girl so we could all get off home.

This maybe a liitle harsh but I'm Irked by the feeling that with different editing this could of been a much better film.

Also does anyone else think that Alan Rickman is looking increasingly like Keith Barron?

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