Screenings:
Friday, June 14, 7 pm
Sunday, June 16, 2 pm
View the trailer.
Director Pang Ho-Cheung (Love in the Buff; Dreamhome) is behind this spectacularly raunchy send-up of the Hong Kong film industry. It stars funnyman Chapman To as a movie producer desperate to score a hit. Along the way, he secures backing from a crazed mainland gangster—but only after enduring a dinner of local "delicacies," including a family of fried mice, and agreeing to commit an unspeakable act with a mule. He then finds out firsthand why his starlet is named Popping Candy. Cantonese speakers will especially enjoy the rapid-fire obscene wordplay and playful jokes on the cultural differences between mainlanders and Hong Kongers, but the film’s atmosphere of good-humored dirty fun has universal appeal. Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Pang Ho-Cheung, Hong Kong, 2012, 92 min., Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles, D-Cinema)
Part of the series 18th Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival