
In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian recipe prepared with a mysterious ingredient that she brings directly from China. The former TV star Mrs. Li visits Mei aiming her dumplings to recover her youth and become attractive again to her wolf husband Mr. Li. Along the sessions, Mei tells Mrs. Li that she was a gynecologist in China with more than 30,000 abortions along ten years. When Mrs. Li requests an accelera... (Full plot summary below)
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In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian recipe prepared with a mysterious ingredient that she brings directly from China. The former TV star Mrs. Li visits Mei aiming her dumplings to recover her youth and become attractive again to her wolf husband Mr. Li. Along the sessions, Mei tells Mrs. Li that she was a gynecologist in China with more than 30,000 abortions along ten years. When Mrs. Li requests an acceleration of the process, the opportunity comes when a fifteen years old teenager with a five months incestuous pregnancy comes with her mother and asks Mei to make an abortion.
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| User ReviewKeiko MDumplings is a Chinese horror film that actually managed to gross me out for once. The horror isn't out right slasher flick or even excessive gore but the subtlety of the appalling human behavior makes it actually plausible. An older out of work actress desperate to save her failing marriage goes to nauseating lengths to stay young and beautiful all for a culture's obsession with youth. Making you wonder if Hollywood starlets will try it one day. That crunch sound forever turned me off to steamed dumplings. |
| User ReviewSigne RThis movie is so wonderful! About how people go to extreme lengths for beauty and sex. |
| User ReviewSean FA great mix of social satire and horror. A must see. |
| User ReviewDel PA superb film which although not intensively shocking or gory, seems to do the trick in such a subtle way.. Bai Ling is absolutely stunning and in general the film is well shot, well acted and the score is beautifully haunting, especially when the Dumplings are being prepared. be warned though you will not eat boiled eggs or chinese dumplings for quite a while afterward LOL.. The first film in ages to give me a strange odd but enjoyable feeling, go see!! |
| User ReviewSimon PThere is intelligent social satire hidden within Fruit Chan's sinister and genuinely vile film. This IS sick. It is also very stylish - beautifully shot, well acted and has a great soundtrack. Plus Bai Ling is extremely sexy, preparing her specialist dumplings, in the kitchen. Cleverly scripted, dark and steamy.. A classy and scrumptious [?] treat. |
| User ReviewWei WYes, we already know from the beginning what the ingredient is for the dumplings. Yes, we are freaked out. But, what makes the film even more unsettling is the realism the film took in revealing the ugly side of human nature. it's not as gory or bloody as one would wanted, but still, watching the film makes you feel disgusted. Not due to the ingredient in question, but rather how desperate one would take to achieve something that might not even be there. Haunting and realistic, yet dreamy and beautiful, the film benefits from the crew members, from the acclaimed director Fruit Chan, to the acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle, to the excellent script that paints the ugliness in human nature, to the excellent cast (Miriam Yeung proved that she can handle roles that are meaty (no pun intended) and subtle, Bai Ling showed that she can act in something serious, and Tony Leung is as horny as hell), it is the collective effort of everyone involved that made the film disturbing to your bones, even without that much gore and blood involved in the process. it is the human nature, my dear. p/s: there is a shorter version which is available in the horror anthology "THREE... EXTREME", where the shorter version to a certain extent is more condensed and took a different route with the characters in the film... still disturbing nonetheless. |
| User ReviewJenna RFantastic. Fruit Chan needs to go down in history for making the first movie in years that I found beautiful and horribly disturbing! |
| User ReviewRebecca Oreally enjoyed this film and we have started eating dumplings since we saw it (not the same filling mind!), difficult subject matter, but very well handled. |
| User ReviewAlex YThis short movie will freak out the most critical of horror folk out there! |
| User ReviewEvan LSo creepy... Thought this one was really worthwhile. |