Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
An 18th Century Parisian darkly obsessed with his sense of smell.
Directed By: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, and Rachel Hurd-Wood
Release Date: TBA 2006
(This preview was originally published in the March 2006 issue of Premiere.)
Filmed partly in Barcelona, which subbed for the streets of Paris, this $60 million mystery stars Layer Cake's Ben Whishaw as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an 18th-century man who apprentices himself to a master perfumer (Dustin Hoffman) only to discover that nothing smells finer than eau de virgin—and he'll stop at nothing to possess it. German director Tom Tykwer faced a peculiar challenge in adapting Patrick Süskind's novel about a nosy Parisian to the big screen. "Many people ask me, 'How are you going to transfer the incredible descriptions of the smells from the book to the cinema?' " Tykwer says. "I tell them that the book doesn't smell either, so we're in a similar situation." —David Broc
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