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Film round-up: August 21, 2020
Reviews of Perfumes, Yes God Yes, Chemical Hearts, The One and Only Ivan and Chemical Hearts
CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
Perfumes
Directed by Gregory Magne
★★★★
AN IRASCIBLE and temperamental perfumer and a chauffeur down on his luck become unlikely friends in this wonderfully understated comedy by Gregory Magne.
Anne Walberg, (Emmanuelle Devos) known as “The Nose,” has been in the perfume industry wilderness for the last four years when she encounters her new driver, the no-nonsense but charismatic Guillaume (Gregory Montel), who only puts up with her airs and graces and rude behaviour because he needs the job to be able to win custody of his young daughter from his ex-wife.
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