| Paris (2003) | Ling Bai "Smokes constantly in her first few scenes, not at all thereafter. It's phony as can be -- not only does she appear not to inhale, she does that thing nonsmokers do when they're playing smokers, i.e., wave the cigarette around a lot and take about 10 times as many drags/minute as a real smoker would. In a way, of course, that's not a negative, but it does scream 'fake!' She also dangles a few times, equally unconvincingly. Oh, and those toothpick-thin cigarettes she smokes don't help either."
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