Perfect Sense (2011)

PERFECT SENSE  (2011)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: David Mackenzie
    Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen,
    Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson
A medical researcher (Eva Green) and a chef (Ewan McGregor) pick a bad time to fall in love, just as a global epidemic starts taking out people's senses, one by one. First to go is smell, followed by taste, and then, well, you'll see. Unlike "Contagion", which played off a similar story line, this movie makes no attempt to explain where the disease comes from, or how it's spread, except to say that it can't be explained. Like "Contagion", it's best moments are intimate ones, showing how ordinary people might respond to such a crisis, or be affected by it. Highlight: Green and McGregor, their taste buds neutralized, happily feast on soap and shaving cream while sharing a bath. In fact, everybody's behavior, once their sense of taste is gone and they become ravenously hungry, is pretty hilarious.