Dumplings

Título original: Gau ji

2004
Not Rated
1h 31min

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6,7/10

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Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung in Dumplings (2004)

Mei is a trashy, former abortion doctor who shuttles back and forth across the HK-China border with benign-looking containers of glistening dumplings. Bound not for the family dinner table, these dumplings are of a special sort, and the preferred meal of a high-paying clientele who seek their famed youth-renewing powers. Qing is a nearing-40 former soap actress clinging to her youth and attempting to win back her philandering husband, who sucks down chicken fetuses in an attempt to maintain his own vigor. Regular meals at Mei's apartment only whet her appetite for eternally smooth skin, and trigger an ominous search for an even more potent variety of the dumplings' secret ingredient.

The ingredient in question, while appalling, is only a warm-up to the twisted moral and cosmic consequences that result from the ethical-boundary-free rules that govern their universe. In his best film to date, Chan masterfully holds a mirror up to the increasingly frightening world around us, and pushes all the right buttons.

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6,7/10

11 mil

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Premios
- 3 premios y 3 nominaciones en total

Li's maid
(as Pauline Lau Bo-Lin)

Tony Ka Fai Leung

Mr. Li
(as Tony Ka-Fai Leung)

Meme Tian

Connie
(as Meme)

So-Fun Wong

Kato's Mother
(as So-Foon Wong)

Miki Yeung

Kate

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Curiosidades
Spawned from the short Dumplings from the Asian cross-cultural trilogy Three... Extremes (2004). Includes the same director and star.

Pifias
In the bath scene where Mrs. Li is sobbing whilst watching the drama. The crying doesn't match up with the movements of the body/ head and mouth.

Citas
Mei, the cook: Let me tell you, all expensive cosmetics claim to contain precious stuff like bird's nest, ginseng, pearl powder, pollen, royal jelly, whatever. Who cares? For women to rejuvenate, you must start from inside for the best result. Only my secret formula can do this. Mrs. Li, think of the results, not what it was.

Conexiones
Edited from Sam gang 2 (2004)

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7/10

Certainly worth watching.

This is a strange film with an unusual central premise.

The main characters are all well played and reasonably believable, it is weird that a woman with the key to eternal youth lives in a small flat in a poor part of town and it is hard to understand why Mrs. Li wants her cheating husband back so badly but these character flaws are easy to ignore.

The plot twists are all quite small and not hugely surprising, this isn't a film built on surprise it is a character study of a woman so desperate for youth that she will do anything to get it.

It's not a film that will leave you amazed or excited or disturbed (unless you are very squeamish) but importantly there is nothing bad about it, it is an unusual idea taken to a logical conclusion with a lot of style and with some good writing and direction.