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...Dumplings??—shortened from a full-length movie of the same name—is by far the most graphically disgusting of the three. Mei (Bai Ling) smuggles aborted fetuses into Hong Kong to make age-defying culinary delicacies. Her customer is Mrs. Lee (Miriam Yeung), a retired actress who is desperate to regain her lost youth and stop her husband’s rampant cheating...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Three…Extremes | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...Dumplings?? is linked with the second segment, “Cut,” by a crunching, slurping, sucking sound that begins as Mrs. Lee eating and becomes the sound of a vampire feeding. The vampire is in a horror movie directed by the main character of the segment, who sets the movie in an apartment that looks just like his house. This and other bits of meta trickery lend a self-mocking element to the short, but it becomes horrific when a disgruntled extra imprisons the director, ties up his wife just out of reach, and threatens...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Three…Extremes | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

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