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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1654
- IMDb #1011
- Google retired #1024
- Rotten Tomatoes #2677
- Metacritic #2187
- Letterboxd #1824
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3365
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2196
- Metacritic Critics #2831
- Metacritic Audience #1059
- Douban #282
- Kinopoisk #786
- AlloCiné #2011
- Trakt #1011
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 56, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 58, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 18th-century France, a man born with a supernaturally powerful sense of smell becomes obsessed with capturing the ultimate scent: the essence of a beautiful young woman. His quest leads him to become a murderer, creating a perfume from his victims in his pursuit of perfection.
Details
- Director
- Tom Tykwer
- Writers
- Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger, Tom Tykwer
- Based on
- Patrick Süskind
- Released
- 13 September 2006
- Country
- Germany, France, Spain, United States, Belgium
- Language
- English, Italian, Latin
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $63.7M
- Box office
- $135.0M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 20th European Film Awards 2007 | Best Cinematographer | Frank Griebe | Winner |
| 20th European Film Awards 2007 | European Film Academy Prix d'Excellence | Uli Hanisch | Winner |
| 20th European Film Awards 2007 | Best Actor | Ben Whishaw | Nominee |
| 20th European Film Awards 2007 | Best European Film | Tom Tykwer | Nominee |
| 20th European Film Awards 2007 | Best Composer | Reinhold Heil | Nominee |
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5 awards — Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
×| Best Cinematographer | Frank Griebe | Winner |
| European Film Academy Prix d'Excellence | Uli Hanisch | Winner |
| Best Actor | Ben Whishaw | Nominee |
| Best Composer | Reinhold Heil | Nominee |
| Best European Film | Tom Tykwer | Nominee |