Permanent Residence (film)

Permanent Residence is a 2009 Hong Kong film starring Sean Li and Osman Hung, and directed by acclaimed Hong Kong Chinese filmmaker Danny Cheng WanCheung, whose stage name is Scud. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as taboo in Hong Kong society, in an unusually open, conventiondefying way, and features fullfrontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the second of five publiclyreleased films by Scud. The four others are City Without Baseball, released in 2008, Amphetamine in 2010, Love Actually... Sucks in 2011, and his most recent, Voyage, in 2013. His sixth film, Utopians, has now been completed and awaits release, whilst his seventh, Naked Nation, is currently in production.

Permanent Residence examines the limit of life, and is the first of a trilogy the second, called Amphetamine, examines the limits of passion, while the third, known as Life of an Artist, examines the limits of art. Amphetamine was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival onFebruary 2010, and was also shown at the Hong Kong International Film Festival onApril 2010. The third film, Life of an Artist, has not yet been released.In the album book that accompanies the film, the director, Scud appears naked as he replaces Sean Li in the photos in an attempt to emphasize the semiautobiographical nature of the film. Publicity videos accompanying the film also feature the fullfrontal nudity of famous Hong Kong Chinese model Byron Pang, who was a contestant in the Mr. Hong Kong 2005 contest, and the films director Scud, himself. The film was said by critics to be both insightful and mournful as it reflects on the fleeting nature of love and mortality.citation needed ........

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