2007 · drama · honor · road
Bliss
Directed by Abdullah Oğuz1h 45m2007
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.
Our read: Bliss (2007) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · honor · road entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / honor, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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