Before she changed literature, she had to escape her own life.
Bliss tells the story of Katherine Mansfield in her early 20s as she leaves New Zealand and begins her journey as a writer.
Acting
Kate Elliott's Mansfield simmers with unspent creative voltage.
Production
Period detail that feels lived-in, not museum-dusty.
Direction
Fiona Samuel resists biopic cliché for something messier.
Director
Fiona Samuel
Kate Elliott
Katherine Mansfield
Sarah Peirse
Annie Beauchamp
Antony Starr
Tom Mills
Chelsie Preston Crayford
Edie Bendall
Peter S. Elliot
Harold Beauchamp
Tandi Wright
Lily Trowell
Toni Potter
Celia
Rima Te Wiata
Miss Watson
Ian Hughes
George Bowden
Alistair Browning
Rudolf Young
Sophie Henderson
Fanny
Simon London
Floryan Sobieniowski
Rachael Blampied
Berthe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kate Elliott is a Mansfield descendant, lending the role accidental ancestral weight.
The real Mansfield burned most early letters; this film imagines what self-creation required her to destroy.
NZ
US
