Love Actually... Sucks!

Love Actually... Sucks!
Theatrical release poster
Directed byScud
Written byScud
Produced byScud
StarringOsman Hung
Linda So
Haze Leung
John Tai
Tang Wei
CinematographyHerman Yau
Edited byWilliam Chang Suk Ping
Andy Chan Chi Wai
Music byYu Yat-Yiu @ PMPS
Production
company
ArtWalker Productions
Distributed byGolden Scene
Release date
  • 7 July 2011 (2011-07-07) (QFEST)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
English

Love Actually... Sucks! (Chinese: 愛很爛) is a 2011 Hong Kong film directed by Scud (the stage name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung). The film's title is a humorous wordplay on the 2003 romantic comedy film Love Actually, as it deals with similar complicated and interconnected relationships. It was released at the 47th Chicago International Film Festival, in October 2011. The film 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.

Love Actually... Sucks! is the fourth of eleven publicly released films by Scud. The other films include: City Without Baseball (2008), Permanent Residence (2009), Amphetamine (2010), Voyage (2013), Utopians (2015) and Thirty Years of Adonis (2017). His eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was the ninth, Bodyshop. Scud's tenth and eleventh films (his final projects prior to retirement), Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe and Ghosts Just Wanna Have Fun, were produced in 2024.

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 becomes involved with his senior student, a role-playing lesbian couple, and a complex love triangle. The film celebrates the belief that life is love.

Cast

Scud at QFest.

Production

A memorable scene in the movie shows a woman performing oral sex on her boyfriend. Scud confirmed the act was unsimulated. "Linda So was at first concerned if she was going to be able to do it. The scene took five takes to film, and Haze Leung quipped, 'One more take and I would have come.' When we were done, Linda and Haze collapsed in laughter. They are real professionals," Scud said.

Home media

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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Lo Hoi-ying (20 September 2022). "'We need to be hopeful': Hong Kong queer director Scud, renowned for his sexually explicit art-house movies, on leaving filmmaking". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. ↑ Gareth Johnson (11 January 2018). "Scud: "I'm reluctant to call Hong Kong home"". Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Love Actually Sucks Archived 24 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Media Luna Biz Films Access date: 2011-09-16
  4. ↑ Love Actually Sucks - Scud's latest film censored Fridae Asia 2011-07-25 Access date: 2011-09-16
  5. ↑ "Love Actually... Sucks! – Scud's latest film censored". www.fridae.asia. Retrieved 7 February 2022.