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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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23/01/2010

BBC Two - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

In 18th-century France, a perfumier goes on a ruthless quest for the ultimate scent.

Unsettling thriller based on the novel by Patrick Suskind. In 18th-century France, a young perfumier (Ben Whishaw) goes on a ruthless quest for the ultimate scent.

Film adaptation of the Patrick Suskind novel. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born an orphan in the stench of 18th-century Paris, possesses the extraordinary gift of a highly developed olfactory sense. Growing up in abject poverty, he becomes obsessed by the idea of possessing everything the world has to offer in the form of smell and eventually resolves to create the most sublime perfume - for which he will need to distill the scent of a young woman's body...

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