Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
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Jan 5, 2007 · Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Ben Whishaw, Francesc Albiol, Gonzalo Cunill, Rachel Hurd-Wood. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 period psychological thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer, who cowrote the screenplay with Andrew Birkin and Bernd Eichinger, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Patrick Süskind. The film stars Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Dustin Hoffman.
Synopsis. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
Born with an acute sense of smell, Jean-Baptiste resorts to dark deeds in creating a perfume that captures the essence of a woman. Watch trailers & learn more.
Jan 4, 2007 · Grenouille effortlessly invents perfect perfumes, but his ambition runs deeper; he wants to distill the essence of copper, stone and beauty itself. In pursuit of this last ideal he becomes a gruesome murderer. Baldini tells him the world center of the perfume art is in Grasse, in Southern France, and so he walks there.
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. With his incredible talent for discerning scents, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) is one of 18th-century France's finest perfumers. He becomes obsessed with ...
The film begins with the sentencing of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw), a notorious murderer. Between the reading of the sentence and the execution, the story of his life is told in flashback, beginning with his abandonment at birth in a French fish market.
