Screened as part of NZIFF 2012

Vulgaria 2012

Directed by Pang Ho-cheung

Pang Ho-cheung (the John Waters of Hong Kong) delivers a deliriously offensive comedy about the lengths a producer will go to secure funding for a feature film. “Lewd, crude and flat-out hilarious.” — Twitch

Hong Kong In Cantonese with English subtitles
90 minutes

Director

Producers

Pang Ho-cheung
,
Subi Liang

Screenplay

Pang Ho-cheung
,
Lam Chiu-wing
,
Luk Yee-sum

Photography

Jason Kwan

Editor

Wenders Li

Production designer

Ho Lok-lam

Costume designer

Ho Lok-lam

Music

Alan Wong
,
Janet Yung

With

Chapman To (To Wai-cheung)
,
Dada Chan (Popping Candy)
,
Ronald Cheng (Brother Tyrannosaurus)
,
Kristal Tin (To’s wife)
,
Fiona Sit (Quin)
,
Susan Shaw (herself)

Elsewhere

Pang Ho-cheung (the John Waters of Hong Kong) delivers a deliriously offensive comedy about the lengths a producer will go to secure funding for a feature film. Shot off the cuff in only 12 days, the film is a series of raucous vignettes presented by producer To Wai-cheung to a group of film students relating to the nutty saga of financing his latest magnum opus, a remake of the 70s sex flick I Want More! To satisfy the demands of heavy investor Brother Tyrannosaurus he must endure major degradation… This wild and brutally funny critique of the film business manages to make mincemeat out of the soul-selling necessary to make a feature film. — AT

“Lewd, crude and flat-out hilarious… An exceptionally guilty pleasure that is a uniquely Hong Kong-grown cinematic experience, but one which serves to highlight precisely what its citizens laugh about, obsess over and gossip about incessantly, whether at work, at home or in bed.” — James Marsh, Twitch