2009 · comedy
Finding Bliss
Directed by Julie Davis1h 36m2009
Jody Balaban, an aspiring filmmaker, is fresh to L.A. with New York film school accolades and the dream of making her movie. Unable to get a job where she can use the skills she so finely honed, Jody must edit adult entertainment to make ends meet. The uncompromising desire to make her movie, leads Jody to secretly film in the porn studio facilities at night - until she is caught in the act.
Our read: Finding Bliss (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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How Finding Bliss feels to watch.
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