Scent of a Woman
1992
***½
Director: Martin Brest
Cast: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar
An enjoyable drama about an unlikely friendship between an elderly blind man who has lost his will to live and a young student who is going through a bad patch himself. This is not one of Al Pacino's finest performances but he finally won his long overdue Oscar. The film is about 30 minutes too long and the ending panders to the audience. Adapted from Giovanni Arpino's novel Il buio e il miele which was previously filmed as Profumo di donna in 1974.
