‘Your attention please. This film contains high doses of curses, political incorrectness, discrimination and sexual situations. Anyone who can’t cope with this has 10 seconds to leave the auditorium.’
Clearly, the latest film by provocateur Pang Ho-cheung is no paragon of good taste. Vulgaria is the humorous – occasionally evoking groans – story of down-and-out film producer To Wai-cheung (Chapman To) who explains to a group of film students what his profession exactly involves. It’s more like a confession than a lecture. One by one, the embarrassing depths of his career are plumbed, including a gruesome dinner with a Chinese Mafia boss who makes To do something indescribable with a mule.
Pang is eager to show the banalities of making B-films (To is specialised in films with exploding body parts and/or porn). Yet the cheeky, satirical Vulgaria also has a heart – because the divorced film producer really wants nothing more than to make his little daughter proud.
Film details
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 92'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
