
Official Selection New Hampshire Film Festival – In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. 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.
Mistress Dispeller is a marvel: elegantly constructed, ethically created, and thought-provokingly humane. -Mashable
The ultimate “How’d they shoot that?” film. -POV Magazine
Modest, melancholic and strangely romantic. -Variety
A remarkably vulnerable film. -The Daily Beast
This level of intimacy and access is rare in any nonfiction film. -Indiewire
NR, 94min, Mandarin w/ English subtitles