bliss
- Winner of 3 AFI Awards -
including Best Picture
Digitally restored
from original film negatives by the NFSA
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Product Details
Format: DVD
Running Time: 1h 52m
Production Year: 1985
No Subtitles
Region: PAL, all regions
Based on Peter Carey’s
Award-winning best-selling novel
Directed by Ray Lawrence
(director of Lantana and Jindabyne)
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Film Summary
The celebrated debut feature by Ray Lawrence is a masterwork of bold ideas, gleefully surreal images, subversive farce and tenderness.
Following a clinical death from heart attack, Harry Joy (brilliantly played by Barry Otto) returns to life and all of the certainties of his previous world have vanished. The life he had previously drifted through amiably is in fact Hell to the re-born Harry. His wife (Lynette Curan) is in a sordid affair with his business partner, his teenage son is mixed up in drugs and incest, and all around him people are dying. It takes an angel in the form of an ex-prostitute (Helen Jones) to set him on the path to discovering bliss.
Film Credits
Staring BARRY OTTO, LYNETTE CURRAN & HELEN JONES
with Miles Buchanan, GIA CARIDES, TIM ROBERTSON,
JEFF TRUMAN, PAUL CHUBB, KERRY WALKER
Director of Photography PAUL MURPHY Film Editor WAYNE Le CLOS
Art Director OWEN PATERSON
Costume Design HELEN HOOPER Music PETER BEST
Screenplay By RAY LAWRENCE & PETER CAREY
Based on the book “Bliss” by PETER CAREY
Produced by ANTHONY BUCKLEY Directed By RAY LAWRENCE
© ANTHONY BUCKLEY FILMS P/L
Point Clare NSW 2250, Australia
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