It is not surprising that she was given the Yakushi Pearl Award for Best Performer in the 2017 Osaka Asian Film Festival." Jam Pascual of The Philippine Star 's "Young Star" column said " Bliss is a brainy change of pace. Bliss seems to be more cerebral, a work that forces its viewers to think before they feel." Rose Carmelle Lacuata of ABS-CBN News said that Iza Calzado's performance ".was able to effectively play the role of an actress trapped in her own world. 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. Oggs Cruz of CNN Philippines called it ".a well-crafted film, one that even outshines Heneral Luna in terms of consistency, and heck, even ambition." He concluded that Bliss is a film "whose pleasures aren’t immediate. On April 5, Tarog confirmed through his Instagram profile that the film had been reevaluated to an " R-18" rating without cuts. The producers held a special free screening of the uncut version at the Cine Adarna in the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City on April 3, 2017. One of the board members noted the nudity to be "gratuitous". In the Philippines, the film was originally rated " X" by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board due to its depiction of excessive nudity and violence, and masturbation, deeming it unsuitable for public consumption. Accordingly, the festival awarded Iza Calzado the Yakushi Pearl Award for Best Performer award which she accepted on March 11. The film was well received during its run at the festival. Release ĭuring a special screening of the film's uncut version at the Cine Adarna, UP Diliman, Quezon City, April 3, 2017īliss first premiered in Japan, as an entry to the 12th Osaka Asian Film Festival held from March 3 to 12, 2017. Marketing īliss ' teaser trailer was released by February 2017, followed by an official trailer the following month. Tarog scored the film for about three weeks. 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 took roughly three to four months to write the screenplay. After auditioning several actresses, the role eventually went to Iza Calzado. His first choice for the lead role had been Anne Curtis but the latter turned it down. 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.
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