This layabout international yachtsman and navigator - Gregory Magne, see, decides one time to write a screenplay, and then make a movie which apparently he also directed although I can't see where he ever acquired 'official' expertise to do that...
...which you need to have nowadays in Hollywood. (LOL)
So he makes this European movie released in 2019, called 'Perfumes' starring Emmanuelle Devos and Gregory Montel.
And... ...it's a good movie, possibly even a great movie.
Emmanuelle Devos |
At some point in the movie it appears to reference Calice Becker, a director at the Perfume House (Division) of Dior. Now I never have heard from anywhere that Calice Becker ever had any episodes of 'anosmia' (the inability to sense odors), but effectively, such a thing is the same as if the rest of us who rely on our eyes turned blind for a while or even permanently!
Anyway the character 'Anne Walberg' in the movie, is this fairly introverted, possibly Asperger's type top flight industry 'nose' who has created ground-breaking, commercially successful perfumes in the past, and she has experienced anosmia just when she was about to be contracted by a huge American corporation. Even so, she is obviously very well-off and does related commercial work in the industry but no longer makes perfumes for any major House; but which she still has an ambition to do again.
It's a bit iffy in the story (although maybe this is more to do with the French cultural nuance not being adequately conveyed to an English-speaking Western audience) how she attracts this particular chauffeur to herself, and how she and he begin to gel as a team - but, nevertheless (as by friend on the other side of the fence, Rabbi Alon Anava says all the time) - nevertheless, the dynamics are fantastic, and she is this very uppity, apparently reserved person, and he is just a working Joe with a daughter he gets part custody of, with difficulty via whatever government services they have there in France.
What genius looks like: Cecile Zarokian. |
Well, since they did reference Dior and Calice Becker, all I can say is Calice Becker is not a 'romantic' character! She is a University-trained, corporate stiff, whose specialty is exactly the kinds of synthetic 'powerhouses' that the movie's protagonist seems to detest. All the same, maybe she and they gave out some producer money so big ups to them for that!
I would be thinking more along the lines of Cecile Zarokian, or maybe Annie Buzantian, for the 'storied golden child' in this arena, and hopefully, not Francesca Bianchi, who is so far 'out there' in terms of hopelessly romantic, exotic and highly erotic creations, that I hope to never even hear a whisper of such a tragedy about temporary 'anosmia!!'
The two half-dozen and a bit, real, and I mean real genuine genius creators in this area today include: Christopher Sheldrake, Dominique Ropion, Cecile Zarokian, Francesca Bianchi, and Russian Adam.
...We've talked about John McAfee here before, and quite regularly. I wasn't able to get through to him directly at all for the last six or seven months, and from my own point of view, it seemed to me that his Twitter feed was clogged up with literally thousands of meaningless 'messages' from people.
Suicide and perfumes are referenced heavily in this new title - 'How She Should Make Love - The Witches of Demeter.' If you click on the link below it will take you there, if you haven't already been. ...It's probably the chapter that's missing from the ending that you 'might be' most interested in, but then, I'd have to send you to that Spanish jail that McAfee was in if you read it!