'PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER' - An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of a best-selling 1985 novel.

Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). Subsequently obsessed by smell, Grenouille's keen olfactory sense becomes so finely tuned that it eventually overpowers such human qualities as love and compassion.

Select openings for' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer':
Houston, TX: Angelika (1/5)
Dallas, TX: Angelika Dallas (1/5)
Plano, TX: Angelika (1/5)

A fascinating story about the genesis of the film appeared under the headline “Capturing a Whiff of a Repellant Hero” in the Sunday, November 26 edition of the New York Times. That story can be found at the following link:

www.NYTimes.com

So, if you would like to win one of these wonderful new CD soundtracks, featuring richly atmospheric performances by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, just answer this easy question: 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' is based on the bestselling novel by whom?!

Send us your answers and if you're correct you'll be in the running to win one of these wonderful new CDs! Just send us an e:mail here before February 15th with your answer and the subject title CONTEST: PERFUME CD to: exclusivemagazine@flash.net