Her Smell

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🎙️ EPISODE 208: 11.26.19 Six is the devil number, so it is fitting that Alex Ross Perry's sixth film is about an obsessed / possessed / unhinged musician. There are gaps in this man's filmography I need to fill in. But I really liked Listen Up Philip and was mildly amused at times by the seemingly overrated The Color Wheel. For me, this film, the third ARP feature that I've seen, falls into that high-7, low-8 zone wherein I find many, many movies exist. Bolstered by a haunting score composed by Keegan DeWitt, Her Smell excels when Elizabeth Moss is losing her mind (which is, thankfully, much of the movie). Moss is the main draw here. She makes this film (or is why it doesn’t work). The pacing makes the auxiliary characters feel underwritten, which isn’t necessarily anyone’s fault. Films based on fictional musicians/bands are among the toughest to sell because the music? Come on now. That was the hit song? (There are rare exceptions: That Thing You Do!, The Righteous Gemstones, but not too many.) But this passes the smell test regardless. (Sorry.)

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