Country: Taiwan
Year: 2011
Duration: 102'
Dog, Vicky’s boyfriend, suddenly disappears without leaving a trace. The girl’s love for him also disappears. But Vicky is convinced that her feelings for Dog can be resuscitated if she finds him. This is the start of her search, which she conducts with the help of a few chat friends; Cola, a fairly self-unaware high school student; Assassin, an alienated young man who lives on the edges of society; and Money, a strange adolescent who is waiting for Judgment Day. With them, Vicky also shares an obsession for the possible connection between electromagnetic pollution and the mysterious mass death of the bees. “There is always a meaning behind the disappearance of something. […] Including love, love is not everlasting. But then, where did all these things that disappeared go to? No one knows, and no one cares. But, it is only through it that will lead us to find those beautiful things and memories we lost. Guiding us forward a beautiful world where all the treasures are kept.”
Biography
film director
Hung-I Chen
Hung-I Chen (Taiwan) graduated in philosophy from National Taiwan University. He then began working as a director in advertising and music, directing over 500 TV commercials and over 200 video clips. His work has received many awards in international events, such as the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the New York Festival and the MTV Music Video Awards. He has also directed several shorts, including Happy Birthday (2007), a winner of the Golden Harvest Award, and a feature-length film, Candy Rain (20o7), which was also presented at the Torino Glbt Film Festival in 2008. Honey PuPu is his second feature-length film.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Happy Birthday (cm, 2007), The Wedding (2007), Hua chi liao na nu hai (Candy Rain, 2007), Xiao Shi Da Kan (Honey PuPu, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Hung-I Chen
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Hung-I Chen, Monica & Shaballe, Fu-Jing Lin
fotografia/cinematography
Fisher Yu
montaggio/film editing
Hung-I Chen, Yua-Xing Liu, Fu-Jing Lin
scenografia/production design
Chun-Wei Kang
costumi/costume design
Yu-Nan Hung
musica/music
Telephone Booth & Barbie
suono/sound
Duu-Chih Tu
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Sheng-Yi Chiu (Cola), Chen-Shi Lin (Money), Po-Sheng Lin (Assassin), Ta-Chi Lee (Dog), Hsin-Ying Hsieh (Playing), Pei-Yu Tseng (Vicky)
produttori/producers
Jufeng Yeh, Terrisa Chen, Ying-Chuan Wei
produzione/production
Red Society Films
vendita all’estero/ world sales
Good Films Workshop
