PERFUME- THE STORY OF A MURDER

Grenouille: Ben Whishaw
Baldini: Dustin Hofman
Richis: Alan Rickman
Narrator: John Hurt
Laura: Rachel Hurd-Wood
The Plum Girl: Karoline Herfurth
Bishop of Grasse: David Calder

Paramount Pictures presents a film directed by Tom Tykwer. Written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer. Based on the novel by Patrick Süsskind. Running time: 145 minutes. 

A magical realist period thriller, with a classical orphan protagonist who’s closer to a modern, autistic serial killer; concerned with the human sense least communicable in cinema.

For ten years, German novelist Patrick Süskind resisted overtures to adapt his 1985 bestseller Das Parfum to the screen, irrespective of big names like Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton and Ridley Scott’s association with the project, believing, as Kubrick reportedly did, that the fragrant narrative simply wouldn’t transfer to celluloid. Yet director Tom Tykwer has striven to prove him wrong.

This movie is a surprising one.Since it is very hard to like a movie, which is based on a book you have read before,'Perfume' breaks all the boundaries. It is as much fascinating as the book. Once you watch it you can understand what I mean.The feeling, which occupies you while reading the book, also catches you while watching the movie.