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What’s That Smell?

Oh, Right–Dead Bodies!

TOM TYKWER’S Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, based on the German novel by Patrick Süskind, introduces the movie-going public to one of the strangest antiheroes of all time: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw), an 18th-century Parisian with a preternaturally developed sense of smell. Born in a fishmonger’s stall and raised in an orphanage, the unlikeable, […]

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