The DU Lounge

Ben Whishaw plays an olfactory savant in 18th-Century France who had been abandoned by his mother because she was repulsed by the infant's lack of body odor. With his extremely discerning nose he becomes obsessed with finding the perfect fragrance, eventually murdering young women to capture their natural redolence. An incredibly odd and sometimes visually breathtaking film that manages to evoke the sense of smell and, like Hitchcock's Vertigo, convincingly portray obsession.