We’re celebrating the weekend (and Twelfth Night + National Bird Day) with the “visual media” version of our winter reading poll. Tell us…
…any great tv shows you’ve discovered recently, and/or
…any great movies you’ve seen lately, and
…of course, tell us the matching perfume(s)!
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
In updating the historical story, this six-part season also gets a detective show twist, with a group of investigators looking into the death of a singer. What they find is a group of one-time school friends, at least one of whom stumbled into the practice of using human scents as the basis for making a one-of-a-kind fragrance. An unexplained death quickly turns into a psychological dive down the rabbit hole of an obsessive killer.
— The new version of Perfume opens on Netflix in late December. Read more (and watch the trailer) at ‘Perfume’ Trailer: Human Scent Murder Mystery Gets Netflix German TV Treatment at Indiewire. You can read our review of the 2006 movie here, or of Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume here.
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is 88 today, and we're celebrating with a little Bond poll (it's sort of a repeat of a poll we did way back in 2008).
1. Who is your favorite Bond? (Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig)
2. What fragrance you think their version of Bond would wear?
3. Your all time favorite Bond movie?
4. Who do you think should play James Bond when Daniel Craig retires? Or should Bond just retire and be done with it?
Or, as always, just talk about something else. We don't mind at all.
Suskind's novel is set in 18th-century France and follows a serial killer with a superhuman sense of smell and an ability to manipulate people using specialized perfumes. Director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas) adapted the book into a 2006 feature film starring Ben Whishaw and Dustin Hoffman.
The new Perfume series shifts the action to the modern day and uses the book's idea of manipulating people through scent as a springing-off point. A young profiler investigating a series of brutal murders traces events back to a small cadre of boys at a boarding school who experimented with manipulating people using human scents.
— Munich-based Constantin Film, who developed the movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (based on the novel of the same name), has developed a spin-off television series. It is coming to Netflix this Fall. Read more at Berlin: Netflix Buys German 'Perfume' Series at The Hollywood Reporter.
We’re celebrating the weekend with the “visual media” version of our winter reading poll. Tell us…
…any great tv shows you’ve discovered recently, and/or
…any great movies you’ve seen lately, and
…of course, tell us the matching perfume(s)!
Or, as always, just talk about something else…