Variety reviews the film adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, calling it “an extraordinarily brave, challenging piece of work.”
Unfortunately, you’re going to have to wait a while before you can see Perfume for yourself. The film is currently being rolled out across Europe, and it hits stateside December 27th. Word on the Straße is that the Germans love it.
Reviewed by Andrew Seal
Stanley Kubrick, the director of incredible film adaptations of books as varied and complex as Lolita, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, once remarked that Patrick Süskind’s Perfume was simply unfilmable. Of course, such judgments have been of little use in preventing directors from trying their hand at adapting other supposedly “unfilmable” novels, such as Ulysses or Tristram Shandy, and so I now find myself anticipating the release of Tom Tykwer’s attempt to prove Kubrick wrong. (more…)
Patrick Somerville, author of TROUBLE, is coming to New York City this week to host not one, but two events! The sheer audacity of it all!
Thursday, October 5 - 7:00pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers (50 Prince St.)
Patrick Somerville will be reading with Karen Russell, author of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.
Friday, October 6 - 6:30 cocktails / 7:00 reading
Pianos (153 Ludlow St.)
Patrick Somerville participates in a One Story reading and cocktail hour. Highballs, Patrick’s cocktail of choice, will be going for $3.
I hope you’ll come and join us! And if you’re over 21, have a highball (or seven) with us, too.