Perfect Sense

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Movie
German title Perfect Sense
Original title Perfect Sense
Country of production Germany
Great Britain ,
Denmark ,
Sweden ,
Ireland
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Mackenzie
script Kim Fupz Aakeson
production Malte Grunert
music Max Richter
camera Giles Nuttgens
cut Jake Roberts
occupation

Perfect Sense (TV title: Perfect Sense - A modern love story ) is a science fiction - drama directed by David Mackenzie . The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival . In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on August 20, 2011 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .

action

Chef Michael works in a high class restaurant in Glasgow across from the epidemiologist Susan's apartment . Both are tired of relationships, but while Michael fills his time with short-lived loves, Susan has withdrawn and finds human contact mainly in her work. Here she comes into contact with the first cases of a previously unknown disease. First of all, those affected fall into great sadness and burst into tears at the memory of mistakes they have made and of people who once loved them. Shortly after they calm down, they lose their sense of smell. As the epidemic spreads and people stay home, Michael meets Susan one evening in the courtyard. The restaurant is empty, so he invites her to dinner. That same evening, the first episode of the disease breaks out in her too, and Michael takes her home. He too falls ill, and the next day both of them have lost their sense of smell.

It quickly becomes clear that every episode of the disease is preceded by a crisis in which people lose control of themselves for a short time and act like crazy. As soon as they come to, they have lost another meaning . From the encounter between Michael and Susan, the world around them is only slowly collapsing into a love relationship in which both give each other support in the face of their helplessness. Both, and people in general, are first trying to deal with the epidemic and its aftermath and get on with their lives as well as possible. When the second boost leads to a loss of the sense of taste, Michaels Restaurant wants to make eating palatable for its guests by means of the beauty of the arrangement and the type of tactile impression of the food, i.e. to compensate for the loss of one sense through the increased service of the remaining ones. In the third episode, people lose their sense of hearing, as a result of which everyday social life changes more and more drastically and society now also begins to disintegrate. In the final step of the epidemic, eyesight fades, and as Michael and Susan feel each other in the courtyard, darkness falls on both of them.

background

The film was shot in various locations around Glasgow .

Reviews

The reviews of Perfect Sense were mixed. At Rotten Tomatoes , 52% of the reviews are positive, out of a total of 52 reviews. Tirdad Derakhshani of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote in his review: “The film loses its charm through annoying sequences in which a narrator tries to explain the 'meaning of it' and then tells us what really matters in life, namely love, love, love . " Stephen Holden of the New York Times described the film as" a solemn science fiction parable set in what is now Glasgow, the deepening foreboding of which is reinforced by the enigmatic, pseudo-biblical reflections of an invisible narrator ".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Perfect Sense . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 459 K).
  2. ↑ https://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/programmkalender/sendung906120.html
  3. ^ Ewan McGregor shooting new film in Glasgow. In: stv.tv. STV News, September 22, 2009, accessed on November 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Perfect Sense (2012). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed November 23, 2015 .
  5. ↑ 'Perfect Sense': Mixing love and chaos. In: philly.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer , October 28, 2011, accessed November 23, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Stephen Holden: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in 'Perfect Sense' . In: The New York Times . February 2, 2012, ISSN  0362-4331 ( online ).