Film Review of La La Land La La Land by Damien Chazelle (2016) released in 2017 in France, opens on a close-up of a dancer, who purposefull and consciously in non-post-racial America was chosen for her brown skin and...
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31 Perfumes for 13 Best Summer Movies {Scented Thoughts} {Fragrance List}
"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible." - Albert Camus "In the middle of winter, I was finally learning that in me lived an invincible summer." - Albert Camus (Our translation) The...
Dangerous Perfumes for Film-Noir Viewing {Perfume List}{Movie Reviews & Musings}
The Big Combo by Joseph H. Lewis, 1955, signed also by legendary cinematrographer John Alton Noir films seethe with danger letting you perceive a heavy atmosphere made up of hidden truths and half-stifled criminal impulses. They offer thrill, adventure, omen,...
Movie Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) by Tom Tykwer, Part I {Perfume/Film Review & Musings}
This is part I of my review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. I will devote a second part to the perfumista's point of view when watching the movie. In this first part, I offer a more general...
Scented Thoughts: Perfume Symbolism in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter {Movie Reviews & Musings}
The Night Porter (1973/74) was a very controversial movie at the time of its introduction and remains to this day. It is the story of the destructive and sado-masochistic relationship uniting a concentration camp survivor and her former Nazi...