After a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.After a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.After a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 11 nominations
- Harry's Mother
- (as Sara De Teliga)
- Harry's Daughter
- (as Saski Post)
- Dwarf
- (as Marco Colombani)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWas shown on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) by John Hind on his film show, and created a mass controversy due to the film's sexual content. The complaints at the time created the most criticised event ever on the ABC.
- Quotes
Adrian Clunes: Y'know Harry, where exactly are you going to draw the line? If you fire us, you have to fire all the clients.
[Oyster flies off his fork]
Adrian Clunes: I'm sorry. Now listen: they release about 18,000 totally new organic compounds every year; none of them are properly tested. God knows how many cause cancer! The whole of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. They cannot afford to stop making them!
[pause]
Adrian Clunes: Oh, for Christ's sake, look at your clients. Austrol had benzine in petrol; which is a carcinogen. Mitsuzi use it making tires! And we, we use saccharine, and even if we switch to cyclamates instead, they're just another suspect. And that other lot, your dry cleaning companies, use carbon tetrachloride! And every time
[pause]
Adrian Clunes: an announcement is made that something might cause cancer, people are less worried because they cannot believe it possible that half of what they breath and eat
[pause]
Adrian Clunes: is going to kill them.
- Alternate versionsThe version originally screened at the Cannes Film Festival ran 135 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Reading Australian Film (1988)
Almost twenty years on, the 'groundbreaking' aspects of Bliss seem tame and quaint, rather like the first episodes of 'Last of the Australians' in which Alwyn Kurts uttered the word 'bastard' on prime time sitcom television. So too, the attention seeking camera-work and 'innovative' narrative treatment strike this viewer as lethargic and unremarkable. The film has been described as 'lauded' but it is worthy of note that at the time it was a box-office disaster, and the industry in general deigned to provide Ray Lawrence with sufficient funds to make another feature until sixteen years later. I know (indeed expect) that many film fans will violently disagree with me, but I welcome (civilised) dissent. Bliss has failed to enhance its reputation with the passing years, but then again I am still of the opinion that Jackson Pollock's paintings are rubbish, and expect to find myself bailed up by the 'cognoscenti' on the cocktail party circuit..
- jeffbertucen@hotmail.com
- May 31, 2004
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Saadet
- Filming locations
- Iron Cove Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia(Harry driving bent car scene)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- A$3,400,000 (estimated)