Q&A with director Elizabeth Lo following the 7:00PM screening on 11/7
ELIZABETH LO | USA, CHINA| 2024 | 95 MIN | NR | ENGLISH, MANDARIN
Official Selection of PFF33! Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, MISTRESS DISPELLER follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle.
In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infi delity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession and is hired to go undercover and break up affairs by any means necessary; a ""mistress dispeller."" Offering strikingly intimate access to a real, unfolding love triangle, MISTRESS DISPELLER documents all sides of what is usually kept behind closed doors. As Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis, sympathies shift between husband, wife and mistress while emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide in this spellbinding look at modern love.