A Job to Repair Marital Infidelity with Documentary Filmmaker Elizabeth Lo
NüVoices
2025/10/22
A Job to Repair Marital Infidelity with Documentary Filmmaker Elizabeth Lo
A Job to Repair Marital Infidelity with Documentary Filmmaker Elizabeth Lo

NüVoices
2025/10/22
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This week, host Solarina Ho and her guest, Hong Kong filmmaker Elizabeth Lo,
discuss the director's award-winning new documentary, 'Mistress Dispeller',
which premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival last September.
The film is now playing in select theaters across the United States.
The intimate film follows a middle-aged couple and Wang Zhenxi, a "Mistress
Dispeller", who is hired by the wife to end the husband's affair with a younger
woman. Solarina and Elizabeth discuss the film's meditative exploration of
relationships, how Wang inserts herself into this couple's life, and how the
couple — and the mistress — navigate the complex dynamics and emotions of
marriage and infidelity, and their place within broader Chinese society.
Elizabeth also discusses the painstaking, years-long process of finding her
central characters, and the remarkable trust and sensitivity required that
allowed her to tell their stories.
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