Grenouille, a man born with a superhuman sense of smell, vows to learn and master the art of creating perfume and preservation of sent in 17th Century France. His life mission leads him to become a very prolific serial killer in the search to preserve beauty.

This is a very beautiful movie. Very beautifully shot and very beautifully written. The colors of lights and darks are bold and bright. This movie was thought to be impossibly adapted from the brilliant novel from David Suskind mainly because it’s almost impossible to describe smell and sent. The film forges on and gives a college try with positive results. Dustin Hoffman almost steals the movie as the elder perfumer. You get the impression that if there was a companion piece, Dustin’s Baldini would definitely a central character. Tom Tykwer does a very good job with this film.

There are some faults. It’s a bit slow and paced for your casual movie goer. Another thing is that it’s a movie about a murderer. Is this bad? No. It’s just that casual filmgoers are a bit more hardwired to predictable variables. The final sequences did lose me a bit. I had to watch the movie a couple times to get it. It also seemed to lose focus in the middle of the film just immersing itself in perfume and smell.

As a movie, it’s great, but as a DVD it kills. It sucks. First of all, I’m sick and fucking tired of the anti-piracy ads that auto start when you play the discs. You treat the public like fucking morons when you do this. Especially the ones who collect DVDs. To have SEs, Box Sets, two years worth of DVDs with that ad on it really is pushing the point too far. Another thing is this DVD is almost bare bones. It’s like they didn’t give a shit about the movie. Just slapped it on a disc with it’s Showtime documentary and some trailers of movies that doesn’t even have a thread related to the main movie and just threw it out. Bad form Paramont. Bad form. There was a lot you could have done in supplement material and you threw it away.

31/2 stars.