Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Adapted from Patrick Süskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.
"...he's just offed Janet Leigh, and Hoffman, as a dethroned perfumer who takes the burgeoning madman beneath his wing,..."