Le Parfumeur

600 characters are really too much for a lot of movies, this being one of them. I could say two simple words, aesthetic rubbish, and you would immediately understand what I'm talking about. There are a lot of silent scenes, interesting costume choices, "visionary" moments... the complete indie package. It has nothing to do with the German serie Der Perfume, August Diehl (I love him so much) cammeo is clearly an attempt to create an expanded universe but it's just not it. It's boring. It's mostly pointless. It's too long. There are so many basic plot twists that could be laughable if the movie didn't take itself so damn seriously.

This epic novel has already been perfectly adapted to the cinema by a German director, Tom Tykwer. I will never understand why the Germans made a disgraceful adaptation of a movie that left its mark on cinema. The acting is bad, the cinematography is mediocre, the adaptation made to the present is incredibly bad, it has failed in terms of scenario. If I were Nils Willbrandt, I would try to prevent this movie from being released. The only good thing about this movie is that it makes you want to watch the Tom Tykwer version again. I'm sure the budget spent on this movie is more than the budget in Tom Tykwer's movie. The worst movie is Netflix Germany.

No pun intended - I have seen the movie Perfume which is really good ... so if you compare this to the superior movie (and/or the amazing book/novel which I have not read I have to admit) ... well the movie will not be looking too good ... so I get the rating in one sense - well more than one sense.

The acting is quite decent overall, the story is ok I reckon. But it does take its time, it is predictable and in the end most will not be sufficiently satisfied. August Diehl might have been able to save this, but he isn't in this long enough to make a dent in the right direction. Still I liked that it at least tried and all the actors did their best ... I've seen way worse movies than this.

What the hell is this complete disaster? Who let this to air? There is no plot. 1 and a half hour dissapointment. It sounded really interssting, but that's all. The characters are ridicuolosly bad. I almost fall asleep while watching.... The interesring story turned out really annoying at the end. The whole story failed at the begining. Police never employ someone who has no sense of smell.... Nowadays, every movie which contains one dead body or murder, get thriller label. This movie is so far from real thriller. Instead of this, this is pure madness! I deffinitely do not recommend to watch this german crap!

If you have seen the original one, the American/English one twin, based on the same book, you will be very disappointed if you try to see this piece. The idea behind the whole movie is to modernize the plot, however all the manage to do was to damage the story and to promote bad actors. The policeman is the worst of them, he has no talents for actor and maybe has his part only basic on his friendship with someone. It is techy and has nothing to contribute with Cinema, despite the good work of the lead actress. On the other hand, she cries too much. By the end, the story makes no sense anymore and all the time you spend trying to fulfill your hope that the movie will, somehow, something that worth your time, it doesn't.