Parfum
Overview:
A Los Angeles luxury real estate agent finds herself in crisis after making a strange discovery during a routine showing. PARFUM explores the absurd dichotomy between California’s ever-increasing obsession with luxury real estate and lifestyle culture (as depicted in Netflix’s hit reality show “Selling Sunset”) and California’s simultaneous increase in wildfires, mudslides, and other climate disasters.
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