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Inconceivable bliss, but finite bliss. Linked to a specific season, tied to specific heroes...
...Charlotte and Henry's rebellious daughter who is planning to run off with her hipster boyfriend, Kim Raver makes a brief, tattered-jean appearance and gives a terrific speech on What It's All About. As Billy, a young actor who seduces Annie as she spirals away from marital bliss, Allie Dreier is wholesomely lecherous. And Ellen Harvey gives a truly nonchalant and terribly British performance as Charlotte, Henry's cuckolded ex-wife who refuses to act cuckolded. Of the more major players, Beth Colt lacks conviction as Annie, but more than compensates with her stage presence and ethereal beauty...
...years old. I have four years, eight months and 28 days to get married. After that, according to a recently released study by a team of Harvard and Yale sociologists, my chances of leading a life of marital bliss drop to an even 50 percent. If I postpone the happy day for five more years until I'm 30, and, hopefully, an up-and-coming corporate attorney, I'll have a mere 20 percent chance of tying the knot. By the time I'm 35, I can forget about marching down the aisle altogether, for I will have only...
...ecstasy are in short supply these days. The first emotion is too righteous for the Age of Ambiguity; the second has been debased into the brand name of an upscale drug. So it is salutary for a film to examine and embrace those anachronistic, ever-so-'60s extremes. Bliss wants to pose the biggest questions -- about life, death and the twilight state in between that passes for existence -- in the weirdest way. It fulminates like a bag-lady savant on the toxic dangers of technology and moral compromise. It has big, randy dreams about its hero's search...
...cockroaches that crawl out of a wound in Harry's chest, the sardines that drop from between the legs of his philandering wife, the elephant that sits on his car -- or the wild cinematic verve that alchemizes each comic grotesquerie into images as vivid as a bad trip. But Bliss is no mere catalog of surrealist gross-outs. It yanks astonished laughs from the viewer to ease the way along a modern pilgrim's progress, one that finds salvation in the doggedness of obsessive love. Harry tracks his recalcitrant Honey to her home; when she rebuffs him, he plants honey...