Sell Out (BLU-RAY/CD Combo)
Fony Corporation has just promoted doe-eyed Eric Tan (Peter Davis) to Head of Product Design and he's already invented a revolutionary 8-in-1 soy bean machine! Taste the silken tofu, the creamy soy milk, the crispy bean curd! It just has one reprehensible flaw: no flaws! The lack of a built-in-breakdown mechanism appalls the conglomerate's two-man executive branch who resorts to a budget exorcism to solve their problem named Eric. Also under the axe is Fony TV 11's ruthless host Rafflesia Pong (Jerrica Lai), whose speciality arts programme is overshadowed by an increasingly popular art form: reality TV. Determined to claw her way back to the top, she lands on a morbid concept that finds an ally in the divided product designer.
Yeo Joon Han's long unavailable musical SELL OUT! is presented here in both its Venice and Director's Cut alongside the original soundtrack of ear-worm musical numbers. In contrast to the realist New Wave films of his contemporaries, Yeo presents a wildly funny, fantastical satire of cosmopolitan Kuala Lumpur. Feeding off the city's inherent frictions — its languages; its dramatic wealth gap; its capitalist malaise – SELL OUT! takes equal aim at corporate monopolies; the film festival ecosystem; pan-Asian fetishisation; consumerism, and money itself: skewering the media landscape and its enablers over a fiery and joyful flame.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Yeo Joon Han's long unavailable musical SELL OUT! is presented here in both its Venice and Director's Cut alongside the original soundtrack of ear-worm musical numbers. In contrast to the realist New Wave films of his contemporaries, Yeo presents a wildly funny, fantastical satire of cosmopolitan Kuala Lumpur. Feeding off the city's inherent frictions — its languages; its dramatic wealth gap; its capitalist malaise – SELL OUT! takes equal aim at corporate monopolies; the film festival ecosystem; pan-Asian fetishisation; consumerism, and money itself: skewering the media landscape and its enablers over a fiery and joyful flame.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- TWO CUTS OF THE FILM: Director's Cut (111 min) and Venice Cut (107 min)
- Archival Interview with Director (Venice 2008, 18 min)
- Archival Interview with Director (Locarno 2020, 31 min)
- Interview with Actor Peter David (2022, 13 min)
- Interview with Jerrica Lai (13 min)
- Interview with Actor Wong Wai Hoong (2022, 6 min)
- Interview with actors Lim Teik Leong and Kee Thuan Chye (2022, 10 min)
- Interview with Actor Calvin Wong (2022, 6 min)
- Video Essay by Andy Darrel Gomes (2022, 2 2min)
- Cast Commentary (2022, 111 min)
- Booklet with essay by Kong Rithdee and photos
- Optional English Subtitles
- Optional Chinese Subtitles
- Original Soundtrack CD
- REGION-A "LOCKED"