What Love Smells Like: Olfactory Cinema
About the event
Viewing options Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbAc6gpFok](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbAc6gpFok&fbclid=IwcGRvZgFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFOazhnMTMwNmNDSTE3WmlWc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoQnuPTuzjQea8NOJZlepCMV5kMwsbc92ulGabsLQpUtxH9ERlfVOKCR4Gfo_aem_IPS1dXvmQ-J3JqLPckroSg)
Scent of a Woman / Profumo di donna (1974) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjfmIFmSsOw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjfmIFmSsOw&fbclid=IwcGRvZgFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFOazhnMTMwNmNDSTE3WmlWc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHuOx9ZmjN3sfkJmz2S3IzhirlZRzKNAL7e9DaIVdHaNFMbcNgqTcrI48yFXm_aem_5YU-oaTeAqA1AGpNcv_CeA) This is Dino Risi’s Italian original, later remade in Hollywood with Al Pacino.
The Five Senses (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsEljD1CAw
This month we explore cinema’s most elusive sense: smell. In Perfume, an extraordinary sense of smell becomes an obsession with capturing beauty and human essence. In The Five Senses, smell becomes a way of recognizing intimacy and even love. In Scent of a Woman, a blind former army captain navigates the presence and attraction of others through scent. Together, the films ask: Can we know another person through smell? What can scent reveal that sight cannot? And how does cinema make us imagine a sense it cannot actually transmit?
And bring your favorite perfume to the meeting. We may put our own noses to the test.
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