Put doubts aside
German cinema and I have never seen eye-to-eye. I don’t really get why this is – I am not a man who is fearful of the odd subtitle. If a non-English-language DVD is to be found in my player, it will almost certainly not have dialogue in German. And yet, nearly every time [...]
[photopress:perfume.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Hell sent
Yep, well – the film title kind of gives away what the story’s about, doesn’t it? Well, I’d say yes and no, in fact. Perfume (2006) (to give its short title) was a film I came away from thinking: ‘I enjoyed that, but I’m just not sure why.’
The central character is a distinctly [...]