Perfect Sense
2011
**½
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Connie Nielsen, Denis Lawson, Alastair Mackenzie
A global epidemic kills the senses one by one. As the world slowly falls into chaos, two troubled souls put their selfish needs aside and seek solace in each other. This frustrating but somewhat intriguing apocalyptic love story is set in Glasgow and was scripted by the Danish writer Kim Fupz Aakeson. The film works fine as a parable, but for a drama about the end of the world, the plotting and characters are just too ridiculous. Eva Green plays a barren epidemiologist who couldn't detect a virus in a petri dish and Ewan McGregor plays a chef who cooks his heart out for people who have lost their sense of smell and taste.
