Love Actually... Sucks!

See also: Love Actually
Love Actually... Sucks!
Directed by Scud
(Stage name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung)
Produced by Scud
Written by Scud
Starring Osman Hung
Christepher Wee
Linda So
Haze Leung
John Tai
Music by Yat-Yiu Yu @ PMPS
Cinematography Herman Yau
Edited by William Chang Suk Ping
Andy Chan Chi Wai
Production
company
ArtWalker Productions
Distributed by Golden Scene
Release dates
  • 7 July 2011 (QFEST)
Running time
83 minutes
Country Hong Kong
China
Language Cantonese

Love Actually... Sucks! (Chinese: 愛很爛) is a 2011 Hong Kong movie, directed by Hong Kong Chinese film producer Scud (Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung 云翔). The film's title is a humorous wordplay on the romantic comedy film story Love Actually, as it deals with similar complicated and interconnected relationships. It was released at the 47th Chicago International Film Festival, in October 2011. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society, in an unusually open, convention-defying way, featuring frequent full-frontal male and female nudity. It is the fourth of five publicly-released films by Scud. The four others are: City Without Baseball, released in 2008, Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, and his most recent, Voyage, in 2013. Two more films, one named Utopians, and the other, Naked Nation, are currently in production.[1]


Plot

Love Actually... Sucks! was inspired by real-life events, and opens with a dramatic wedding feast. It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who is besotted with his senior student, and a lesbian couple, one of whom has role-play paranoia, and is caught in a complex love triangle. The film celebrates the belief that life is love.[2][3]

Cast

VCD, DVD & Blu-ray

A Panorama Distribution edition of Love Actually... Sucks! was released internationally on VCD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 26 June 2012.

Other films directed/produced by Scud

See also

References

  1. "Open Auditions for Artwalker's new films - 'Open Auditions' notice". Artwalker (production company). Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  2. Love Actually Sucks Media Luna Biz Films Access date: 2011-09-16
  3. Love Actually Sucks - Scud's latest film censored Fridae Asia 2011-07-25 Access date: 2011-09-16

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