| Love Actually... Sucks! | |
| Director: | Scud (Stage name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung) |
| Producer: | Scud |
| Starring: | Osman Hung Christepher Wee Linda So Haze Leung John Tai |
| Music: | Yat-Yiu Yu @ PMPS |
| Cinematography: | Herman Yau |
| Editing: | William Chang Suk Ping Andy Chan Chi Wai |
| Studio: | ArtWalker Productions |
| Distributor: | Golden Scene |
| Runtime: | 83 minutes |
| Country: | Hong Kong China |
| Language: | Cantonese English |
Love Actually... Sucks! 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 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. 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 seven publicly released films by Scud. The six other films are: City Without Baseball in 2008, Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, Voyage in 2013, Utopians in 2015 and Thirty Years of Adonis in 2017. The eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was the ninth, Bodyshop, but neither have yet been released.[1] The tenth and final film, Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe, is currently in production.[1] [2]
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.[3] [4]
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.[5]
A Panorama Distribution edition of Love Actually... Sucks! was released internationally on VCD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 26 June 2012.