Madness Awaits the Boy Who Makes Scents
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Writing about Jean-Luc Godard’s “Weekend,” the critic Manny Farber once declared that it was a movie “in love with its own body odor.” The same could certainly be said of “Perfume,” a sensually saturated ode to everything olfactory that takes delirious — even demented — pleasure in rubbing the audience’s nose in a bouquet of mythic psychopathology.
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