Dumplings (18)

Nicholas Barber
Saturday 17 June 2006 19:00 EDT
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Miriam Yeung is a retired Hong Kong soap star who resorts to drastic measures when her businessman husband has an affair with a younger woman. She visits Bai Ling, a brassy cook who lives with her pet poodle in a shabby block of flats. Despite Bai Ling's unpromising appearance, the dim sum she prepares has an amazing rejuvenating effect on anyone who eats it, thanks to a not-so-secret ingredient: aborted human foetuses, minced and boiled. Yes, Dumplings is revolting, largely due to the slurps and scrunches on the soundtrack, but it's not a horror film as much as it's a weirdly cheerful satirical fable. A delicious acquired taste.

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