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Perfect Sense

2011

David Mackenzie

Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Ewen Bremner ...

6.5

7,389

Drama. Romance. Sci-Fi When Susan (Eva Green), an epidemiologist, reemerges from an affair gone sour, she encounters a peculiar patient—a Glasgow truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his sense of smell. Susan learns there are 11 cases like him in Glasgow, 7 in Aberdeen, 5 in Dundee, and 18 in Edinburgh. In fact, Great Britain has 100 cases, with additional ones reported in France, Belgium, Italy, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"People around the world progressively lose their senses (...) Too bad the filmmakers never seem to have had a sense of humor in the first place (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	David Edelstein New York Magazine	"An ode to love, which blooms when all else—and I mean all else—falls away"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Filmed with the somber pretentiousness of a 'Babel,' the movie never quite converts its premise into something grander (never mind believable) (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A dour celebration of the ability to adapt. (...) The love story doesn't quite work. (...) Mr. McGregor and Ms. Green make an attractive couple. But the movie's notion (...) feels forced and sentimental."	NEU
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"Sometimes screwy but mostly smart and always heartfelt 'Perfect Sense'"	POS

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