Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Tom Tykwer - 2006

For the first time in his life, Grenouille realized that he had no smell of his own. He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.



O romance de Patrick Süskind colocava o desafio de traduzir odores em imagens.
O desafio era demasiado dificil, apesar da grande produção Tom Tykwer ficou aquém do objectivo.
O Bairro Gótico de Barcelona serve de exemplo do cheiro nauseabundo das cidades europeias do Sec.XVIII, os La Fura dels Baus participam na monumental orgia final e o filme acaba por funcionar pela sua imponência.