Directed and produced by Abdullah Oguz of Turkey, and based on Zülfü Livaneli’s international bestseller, "Bliss"is the first film about the taboo subject of honor killing. Rape victim Meriyem, sentenced to death to save her family’s "honor," and her unlikely executor-turned-savior Cemal are joined by a disillusioned intellectual from Istanbul as they search for path between tradition and modernity.
"Why is it that honour killings have taken so long to inspire art? Despite all our protestations, these most heinous of murders - so euphemistically termed as to provoke opprobrium in itself - have curiously failed to goad artists into action. Scandalously, and for far too long, the plight of countless women who die at the hands of their own brothers, fathers, uncles, and sons - for infractions believed to have brought shame on their families - has gone unnoticed. In countries where the dishonorable act of killing in the name of honour is commonplace, the conspiracy of silence is almost deafening. That is a crime in itself." See Guardian film blog for complete critique.
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