Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense is set in Glasgow, where a disease spreads across the world and strips people of their senses one at a time, beginning with smell and moving through taste, hearing and sight. Susan, an epidemiologist, is among the first to notice the pattern when patients arrive with sudden emotional outbursts and then lose their sense of smell. As cases multiply far beyond Scotland, she meets Michael, a restaurant chef, and what begins as a casual connection grows into something they hold on to while the world around them steadily loses its capacity to feel.

David Mackenzie directed the film, which he made after Spread and before You Instead in a run of features that also includes Young Adam, Starred Up, Hell or High Water and Outlaw King. Kim Fupz Aakeson wrote the screenplay, and the production was a European co-production involving companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Ewan McGregor plays Michael and Eva Green plays Susan, with Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Denis Lawson and Anamaria Marinca in supporting roles across a credited cast of 53.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.9 from 1,282 votes, while its critics' rating stands at 5.8 from 65 reviews, so audiences have responded more warmly than reviewers. It runs 93 minutes and blends drama, romance and science fiction.