We have added a new set of pictures from Perfect Sense, a Sundance 2011 entry led by Ewan McGregor and Eva Green with the cryptic logline, “A poetic and magnetic love story about two people who start to fall in love just as the world begins to fall apart.”
Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, including love – until she meets Michael, a talented chef. Suddenly everything starts to change. As Susan and Michael experience unforeseen depths of feeling, people around the world beginning to feel strange. Emotions rage, senses fail. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure, experiencing head-spinning, stomach-tightening moments of pure connection. Are they falling in love or is the world falling apart?
When Susan (Eva Green), an epidemiologist, reemerges from an affair gone sour, she encounters a peculiar patient—a Glasgow truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his sense of smell. Susan learns there are 11 cases like him in Glasgow, 7 in Aberdeen, 5 in Dundee, and 18 in Edinburgh. In fact, Great Britain has 100 cases, with additional ones reported in France, Belgium, Italy, and Spain, and they all appeared in the last 24 hours.Although Susan's encounter with Michael (Ewan McGregor), a local restaurant chef, holds the promise of new love, the world is about to change dramatically. People across the globe begin to suffer strange symptoms, affecting the emotions, then the senses. Director David Mackenzie returns to the Sundance Film Festival (Spread played in 2009) with Perfect Sense, a magnetic romance/thriller that offers a deeply moving proposition about the way the human race might weather a global pandemic.The film also stars Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie. David Mackenzie directs this drama with a script provided by Kim Fupz Aakeson, who penned “A Somewhat Gentle Man” which has earned some good reviews on the festival circuit. IFC has picked up Perfect Sense for distribution, but no release date has been set as of this writing.
Perfect Sense, Eva Green and Ewan McGregor
