Last year, Coventry University East Asian Film Society (Cueafs) founder Spencer Murphy had the pleasure of interviewing acclaimed Hong Kong auteur Pang Ho-cheung, alongside producer Subi Liang and scriptwriter Jody Luk. All three were in attendance at the 14th Udine Far East Film Festival to support the screening of their films Love in a Puff (2010), Love in the Buff (2012) and the Category III shock comedy Vulgaria (2012), which is released in the UK this week on DVD and Blu-ray, courtesy of Third Window Films. The seedy-sounding premise of Ho-cheung's Vulgaria (2012) may put-off some viewers with a sensitive disposition, but this Hong Kong sex comedy errs more on the side of fun than filth.
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- 4/16/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Love in The Buff
Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung
Written by Pang Ho-Cheung, Luk Yee-sum. Jody Luk
Hong Kong, 2012
One of the few films to be presented in 35mm at this year’s festival, Love in the Buff (which, in the film’s title card, really really looks like Love in the Butt) is a sequel which reunites the two main lovers of the first instalment, Jimmy (Shaun Yue) and Cherrie (Merriam Yeung), whose relationship is on the rocks. Early on the in the film Cherrie, who finds Jimmy’s slow maturation process into adulthood insufferable, decides to call it quits. A new job takes her from Hong Kong to Beijing, where new opportunities of love await. Things get sticky, after having met someone, when Jimmy is also relocated to Beijing for employment. Even though each has found a new companion, fate sees that they stumble upon each other, and old feelings rear their heads…...
Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung
Written by Pang Ho-Cheung, Luk Yee-sum. Jody Luk
Hong Kong, 2012
One of the few films to be presented in 35mm at this year’s festival, Love in the Buff (which, in the film’s title card, really really looks like Love in the Butt) is a sequel which reunites the two main lovers of the first instalment, Jimmy (Shaun Yue) and Cherrie (Merriam Yeung), whose relationship is on the rocks. Early on the in the film Cherrie, who finds Jimmy’s slow maturation process into adulthood insufferable, decides to call it quits. A new job takes her from Hong Kong to Beijing, where new opportunities of love await. Things get sticky, after having met someone, when Jimmy is also relocated to Beijing for employment. Even though each has found a new companion, fate sees that they stumble upon each other, and old feelings rear their heads…...
- 8/11/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
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