Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

GazerRise Fantastic!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

alex-ks Pale, dull and straightforward imitation of "Rosemary's Baby" (mystical part of the plot and conclusion). But even stranger - 1976's "Le Locataire" idea of insanity and illusions have a lot in common with this italian flic. But Polansky's movie stay strong, while this movie ruins apart after 30 min or so. And the ending is weakest spot. It's too much predictable (if you saw "Rosemary's Baby" before): in "Rosemary" there was satanic cult, and "Il profumo della signora in nero" has sacrifice/prey themes in it's core. So finale is obvious, when you start to realise WHICH movie inspired authors of this oldie italian flic.

qmtv Crappy story, nothing makes sense, decent sets music and cinematography, that's it.OK, my vote is 3, but a 1 given to balance the incredible praise for this garbage movie. The set design, and cinematography, and music was professional and good. Not great. The acting was decent, but not great at all. The story sucked. So this woman is having some psychological issues because of her mom, mom's lover, her suicide or her killing her mom. What's up with the African voodoo/witchcraft nonsense. And the neighbor, boyfriend, her chemical job. And that freaking cannibal club at the end, coming out of nowhere. I paid attention. Nothing lead to that. They might as well thrown in Christopher Lee as Dracula, or Darth Vader and send her to the moon. Please, I liked the cinematography and the sets, the acting and dialogue was OK enough to watch, but the story and ending is just garbage. Any atmosphere created here, and it's not much is completely thrown away. If they just showed the last scene with the cannibals alone for an hour and half that would have made a better movie. Go see "Footprints on the Moon" for a great psychological thriller. That is a movie with great acting, atmosphere, mystery, music, cinematography, and story.Perfume of Black dress whatever title, is garbage.

bababear THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK is very much worth watching. But it takes a lot of patience because it doesn't follow the template we expect for a film like this; I kept watching because it was wonderfully photographed, had a tremendous musical score, and I kept expecting to get really involved with the main character.Unfortunately, my involvement wavered because most of the action took place inside her head (as best I can figure) and as the story progresses she gets crazier and crazier. For that reason Silvia gets relegated to the role of The Unreliable Narrator. And when a film's makers get too involved in questions of What is real? and What is illusion? my mind goes to the question of What time does whatever is playing in Auditorium 2 start and can I sneak it?Silvia, played by Mimsy Farmer, is a work obsessed career girl employed in some sort of chemical lab. The exact nature of her work is never explained, but she's one of those women who never wants to take a day off. Whatever she does obviously pays well: she has an apartment in Rome with a living room big enough to play polo in.Mimsy Farmer is a blonde American actress of the Hope Lange- Vera Miles school who projects practicality and good sense. She made a second career for herself in Italian films like this after parts on this side of the Atlantic dried up. She kept my interest going even when the plot faltered.Silvia has a Dark Secret in her past, and her life gradually begins to unravel. The atmosphere becomes more menacing, but not a lot happens. It's past the one hour mark before the first irrelevant supporting character gets killed off.Finally there's a climactic scene where Silvia is confronted by the phantoms of the past and events seem to come to a resolution.Then (don't worry- I'm not going to give anything away here) director Francesco Barilli seems to crank up a whole new movie in the last few minutes so different in tone (both in theme and execution) that it seems totally unrelated to everything we've seen and heard, even though it does feature the same actors we've been watching.Imagine if THE KING'S SPEECH had ended with Dr. Logue and King George VI wearing fishnet stockings and dancing "The Time Warp" on the steps of Buckingham Palace. This movie goes off the rails even worse than that.And that's why the ending of THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK dropped its rating from an eight to a three.You can see for yourself if you're a Netflix subscriber- it's available streaming now.

smartalec-j Contains spoilers.Barilli, main character in Before the Revolution (B Bertolucci , 1964) , basically directed just another film after this one, plus one episode in a 1991 film ("La Domenica Specialmente") He is more of a painter ( you could not have missed the painting on the wall of Silvia's room in this Italian cult gem: Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero). Apart from highlighting the odd references 1. this film seems inspired by Polansky's "Rosemary Baby" 2. this film seems to have inspired Polansky's "Le Locataire" 3. Mimsy Farmer seems a name inspired by Mia Farrow (even if it can't be as Mia is only 18 days older than Mimsy!) and that I think that this film is quoted in Society( B Yuzna, 1989). I would say the last scene CAN be taking place in the real world. "Other" scene settings seemed strangely odd, because they ARE dreams. Note how the wall paper of the 'seance' is the same as the wrapping of a box with Silvia's friend's ashes. The latter is a DREAM. Which points to the last odd reference: Mulholland Dr : I think one can work out which scene is a dream and which not (as in David Linch's film). And there might be this thing where in the end Silvia (while dreaming ?) COMMITS SUICIDE. And the other thing that all the characters come back in the final sequence. Because it's the "real world"!!!! NO HAY BANDA What I could not explain though: why does Silvia keep dreaming of the Italian flag ?