Bliss

Bliss (2017)

Everybody wants a taste of bliss.

After she gets into a film-production accident that leaves her crippled, successful actress Jane Ciego slowly transitions into madness after experiencing horrors and torture in her own home.

Date of release
2017-05-10
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Thriller, Horror, Drama, Mystery
Director
Jerrold Tarog

Casting

Interesting facts

Bliss is a 2017 Filipino psychological thriller film written, directed, edited and scored by Jerrold Tarog. It stars Iza Calzado, Ian Veneracion, TJ Trinidad, Michael de Mesa, and Adrienne Vergara. The film competed in Japan at the 12th Osaka Asian Film Festival in March 2017 to critical acclaim, where Calzado also garnered the Yakushi Pearl Award for Best Performer. The film premiered in the Philippines on May 10.

Production

Director Jerrold Tarog pitched the idea for Bliss—which composed of five stories—right after the Philippine commercial release of Heneral Luna, a film that he also directed. His first choice for the lead role had been Anne Curtis but the latter turned it down. After auditioning several actresses, the role eventually went to Iza Calzado.

Tarog took roughly three to four months to write the screenplay. He credited foreign films such as Ingmar Bergman's Persona, Misery, and anything by Japanese director Satoshi Kon—most notably his films Perfect Blue (1997) and Millennium Actress (2001)—as inspirations in crafting the film. Tarog scored the film for about three weeks.

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