AKA: 我為卿狂, Ngoh wai hing kong, Ngo wai hing kwong, Wo wei qing kuang, Yun yu nan wang: Wo wei qing kuang, 我为卿狂, Khát Khao Thầm Kín, Dorința ascunsă, 아위경광 | Directed by Ho Fan | Country: Hong Kong | Language: Cantonese | 92 mins
Cast: : Veronica Yip Yuk-Hing, Rena Murakami, Sharon Kwok, Charlie Cho Cha-Lee, Ho Pak-Kwong, Lam Chung, Ji Hung Chan, Chin Fei Lam, Mei San Lai, Elaine Lam
Subtitles : English, Chinese
Synopsis (Google Translate)
David is sitting in a bar, musing over why he has bedded and left five or six of Asia’s loveliest women in such a short time.
City Pop fetishism. Like Fulci’s The Devil’s Honey this straddles the sensual and the improbable, like a couple fucking atop a double-decker bus as neon washes over them and horns blare behind them. Even more than touch this a film about how light intersects with the body, Ho being a renowned photographer so much of the tableaux here pertains to the ideals of desire as posed within chambered sequences of ethereal ecstasy. Most indicative of this is a key sequence wherein two lovers are enveloped in the silhouette of the moon as it dictates how they flow into one-another amidst slow dissolves of eroticism. The drama between such scenes is perfunctory, a retreat into the loneliness that arises within the emotional vacancy between business and pleasure, two pursuits which so often treat the body as a mere commodity; in the cruelty of these final moments the predominant musical motif is devastatingly remixed, still intimately recognisable yet the moans which accompany it turn to screams that’ll remain unanswered once partners – lovers, investors – have their way……. Review by Jack Russo
