Bliss
Synopsis
Actress JANE CIEGO (Iza Calzado) entered showbiz at a young age. Though equally popular and successful, Jane now in her 30’s, has become tired of the usual projects she’s been getting. She decides to produce her own film to win some respect in the industry. But things do not go as planned. A terrible accident on the set of her dream project leaves her temporary crippled, trapped in a house filled with bizarre phenomena and under the care of her unfeeling husband and a strange nurse. With the horrors and madness escalating each day, Jane’s simple dream becomes an endless nightmare.
Film Details
GENRE:
Psychological Horror, Drama, Mystery
DIRECTOR:
Jerrold Tarog
CAST:
Iza Calzado , Ian Veneracion , TJ Trinidad , Shamaine Buencamino , Michael De Mesa , Audie Gemora , Stephanie Sol , Adrienne Vergara , Star Orjaliza
TOTAL RUNNING TIME:
1 hour 40 minutes
RELEASE DATE:
May 10, 2017
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“Bliss” is a film whose pleasures aren’t immediate. It isn’t as emotionally rousing as “Heneral Luna” or “Sana Dati,” whose themes of nationalism or romantic love, respectively, are things that provoke effortlessly. “Bliss” seems to be more cerebral, a work that forces its viewers to think before they feel. It is a commentary veiled as a horror, a critique of the onerous world of art and entertainment whose abusive behavior towards its workers is akin to the ones committed by sex offenders, where routine and repetition are keys to tolerance, to acceptance, and to further and perhaps more prevalent abuse. The nightmare simply cycles. We either wake up or die, or go to the nearest Family Mart for that much-needed respite.
– Oggs Cruz, CNN Philippines