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THE EMPIRE OF SCENTS

LE NEZ

By Nguyen KIM

JUPITER COMMUNICATIONS SA - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video

Art - Culture - Completed 2014

Visions du Réel 2015

Grand Angle

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Nguyen KIM
- Producer(s)
- Tremblay LUCIE
- Synopsis
- The pleasures of food, of the erotic, of family – form the very fabric of our emotional lives. And smell is an essential emotional trigger. There is more truth to call our sense of smell our sense of desire because it springs our passions. Smell moves us, subliminally and profoundly. It moves us to act and do things we are wholly unaware of. It enriches our lives, gives us with unspeakable joys. All along this feature-length documentary, central storylines take us into the world of smell. Many of them have the suspense, death-defying risk and/or insanity of a journey/quests. Others, are moments of pure poetry.
  Filmed in five countries, this documentary takes us through an artistic journey through the lens of Kim Nguyen, Oscar nominee for best foreign film in 2012 with his film War Witch. He integrates beauty, taste and poetry into the film, to the point where we can feel the inner sense of the Empire of Scents.