Saturday, July 22, 2023

Perfumes (Les parfums - 2019)

Deb and I really liked this French dramedy about a down-on-his luck chauffeur and a prickly woman who creates fragrances. Grégory Montel's Guillaume is a multi-layered divorcé with an adorable tween daughter and Emmanuelle Devos portrays Anne as on the spectrum (all the blurbs refer to her as a "diva" but I think not). Sergi López makes an appearance in the third act and I won't say his character's name because it's a bit of a spoiler. 

Director/writer Grégory Magne keeps the pace going accompanied by Gaëtan Roussel's score. It's not available online but I did find a clip on YouTube. Cinematographer Thomas Rames provides pretty scenes of various locations in the country.

Devos was last blogged for Wild Grass and Lopez for Potiche. Magne has one other feature to his credit and Roussel and Rames each have four

Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are smelling oh-so-sweet with averages of 100 and 90%, respectively. We watched it July 9 on Amazon Prime Video with a subscription.

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