Her Smell (2019)
Directed by Alex Ross Perry
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
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What critics compared Her Smell to
All this woman-on-woman psychodrama, combined with the kinetic camerawork snaking around the backstage setting, makes Her Smell feel like Birdman meets The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant .
While lacking the same technical prowess, such as the extended single takes, the film’s bleak atmosphere is comparable to Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance ) (2014).
If even a New Wave-era novelty like Frank Sidebottom can inspire a Michael Fassbender movie and the sticky-backed signifiers of American hardcore can be plastered all over Ten Thousand Saints (2015) and Green Room (2015), then it’s high time for a Temple of the Dog biopic.