Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  • Director: Tom Tykwer
  • Writer: Andrew Birkin,Bernd Eichinger,Tom Tykwer
  • Countries of origin: Germany, France, Spain, United States, Belgium
  • Language: English
  • Release date: January 5, 2007
  • Runtime: 2h 27min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Perfume
  • "The Story of a Murderer" is a feature film produced by DreamWorks and EMI, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Ben Whishaw , Dustin Hoffman and others. The film was released in Germany on September 7, 2006.
    The film is based on Patrick Süskind 's novel of the same name. It describes the journey of a genius, Grenoye, who does not interact with humans and has an unusual sense of smell, who will kill people in pursuit of the world's most perfect scent   .
    The film won six awards including Outstanding Feature Film and Best Fashion Design at the 57th German Film Awards   .

    Details

    • Release date January 5, 2007
    • Filming locations Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France
    • Production companies DreamWorks, Constantin Film, Bernd Eichinger Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $60,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,223,293

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $37,079

    Gross worldwide

    $135,039,924

    Movie reviews

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    • By Chanelle 2022-07-29 15:18:57

      Perfume: The Story of a Murderer--Find True Meaning

      Grenouille was born at a fish stall and finally chose to leave it at a fish stall. What is the meaning of life? Camus said it was pointless resistance. Our protagonist was born inexplicably in a messy and smelly fish stall. Unlike his siblings, he survived, and only in his scent world. What does the smell mean to him? Love, soul, pursuit, the meaning of life? There is no so-called morality, there is only an exploration of the...

    • By Braeden 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      Perfume Rhapsody

      Some time ago, I did something extremely unreliable with three women: I watched a movie in the library, and I watched a movie that combined bloody murder and nude group P. And there are two teams of people next to them. One team is about good students in law school who discuss their homework. The security uncles are all recruited.

      "Perfume" is said to be a banned film, but in my opinion, it's nothing more than a literary film dressed in heavy flavors. My classmate's comment on the...

    • By Jeremy 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      perfumer

      With a clean and deadly blow to the back of the head, the girl's body fell softly to the ground. Following the unique scent of virgins, they peeled off their corsets and long skirts layer by layer. Their fresh corpses are smeared with thick animal oil and wrapped with gauze. In this way, a few hours later, the gauze wrapped around the corpse was peeled off, the girls' hair was cut off, the oil was squeezed out, and the residual oil on the girl's body was scraped off with a knife, so that there...

    • By Elinore 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      The more disgusting and heavy-tasting perverted murderer documentary has sullied a literary name

      When I saw the title of the film, I thought it would be a more literary film, but I didn't expect it to be a film about a perverted murderer with such a heavy taste.

      A person who regards himself as a dog-like existence only for his taste, but also blames others for not treating him as a human being. . . . . Such bizarre logic, it is estimated that only the French who know nothing about logic will accept it.

      Originally, I wanted to give 2 stars for the sake of the performance...

    • By Johnathan 2022-04-23 07:01:31

      The Loveless and the Mindless Murderer

      Grenouille, the loveless and the mentally retarded murderer.
      Since he was born, he has never encountered any good emotions, so he doesn't know how to learn to express good emotions. With that terrible nose, he went through love after love. "Every murder is a love affair, but what he loves is not beauty, but the smell of beauty." Every time the camera expresses Grenouille's sensitivity to smell, it becomes particularly affectionate and poetic. I don't know why, but I was deeply moved by...

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    • By Bennie 2023-09-30 08:22:38

      The plot itself is not bad, but the reality is terrible. A paranoid who will do anything to get what he wants. I ask all fans who support his fanatical pursuit of art to put themselves in the shoes of your loved ones. will support...

    • By Hermann 2023-08-13 04:28:48

      It is the same as "Crime and Punishment" as a backlash against superhumanism, but the angle is more interesting. Crime and Punishment is that no one is an overman, and perfume is what will happen when people become overman, an evil Christ, a complete betrayal Faust for Mephistopheles; there's also quite a bit of "rabble" in it, though that's probably an over-analytical...

    • By Mike 2023-07-07 11:13:42

      A saga similar to Dorian Gray. When the pursuit of art reaches the limit, it is perversion. I did not expect that the end of the film is actually a redemptive ending. The overall feeling is not bad, is a strange audio-visual...

    • By Hortense 2023-07-04 18:23:58

      Tekway is the best spokesperson for Juskind, and the scene of intercourse in the square should be at least 80% of Ju Lao's...

    • By Russel 2023-06-09 22:09:11

      It's super nice, this story is amazing, especially the last paragraph.. The biggest inspiration to me: people need to be...

    Movie plot

    In the eighteenth century, Jean-Mapiste Grenoye ( played by Ben Wisshaw ) was born in the dirtiest and most foul-smelling place in Paris-the fish market. Grenoye was born with an amazing talent for smells: he remembered them one by one, whether they were foul or aromatic, and could easily distinguish various smells.
    When he was 13 years old in the orphanage, he was sold by the dean to a tanner. Grenoye lived an inferior life in the...
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    Film thoughts

    The film unfolds the narrative process of the film with the movement of Grenoyer's nose, and also shows the uniqueness of the protagonist Grenoyer: It is under the guidance of his talented sense of smell that Grenoyer's life can be found in the world. Survive, develop, prosper and eventually destroy.
    Although the film traces the story back to the 18th century, the film is guided by the sense of smell and takes the search for perfume as...
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    Character image

    Some viewers are puzzled by the protagonist's suicide after watching the film. As everyone knows, the character image created by the film has his own integrity, and the development of the film's story follows its own "rules of the game." In the specific art world created by the director, Grenoye has his own destiny and destination.
    Recalling Greno’s life carefully, his tragic fate seems to have been doomed at the beginning of the film:...
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    Music

    From the foul smell that has always been rendered with a depressive tone at the beginning, to the protagonist Grenoye’s first step into the city, the dreamy music plays, to the capture of the unique fragrance of the fragrance, the description of the background music finally establishes the direction: a The trembling, low, anxious tones of string music constitute the background of the times and the description of the ugly environment; a...
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    Movie quotes

    • Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: What's a legend?

    • Narrator: He still had enough perfume left to enslave the whole world if he so chose. He could walk to Versailles and have the king kiss his feet. He could write the pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah. He could do all this, and more, if he wanted to. He possessed a power stronger than the power of money, or terror, or death - the invincible power to command the love of man kind. There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself.

    • Narrator: When Jean-Baptiste did finally learn to speak he soon found that everyday language proved inadequate for all the olfactory experiences accumulating within himself.