Love Actually Sucks!
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Duration Language Cantonese | Country Hong KongChina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Scud(Stage name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung) Release date 7 July 2011 (2011-07-07) (QFEST) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. His sixth film, Utopians, has now been completed and awaits release, whilst his seventh, Naked Nation, is currently in production.
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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.
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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.