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‘Mistress Dispeller,’ Elizabeth Lo’s Venice Documentary, Puts Love Triangle in the Hands of a Paid Disruptor: ‘Seductive Approach Was Compelling to Financiers’
'Mistress Dispeller,' Elizabeth Lo's Venice documentary, puts a real love triangle in the hands of a professional disruptor.
A love triangle involving a middle-aged couple and a younger woman is exposed and scrutinized from every angle when a professional breakup agent is employed in Elizabeth Lo ’s “ Mistress Dispeller.” Lo, who had previously cast her eye across Turkish society in “Strays,” a film ostensibly about dogs, was keen to examine the position of women in fast-changing China. Lo added: “Editor [and co-writer] Charlotte Munch Bengtsen and I were very conscientious of wanting to protect our characters, our protagonists, because they had led us into the deepest wounds of their lives … we never, ever directed them what to do or say.
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