{"id":24825,"date":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24825\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","slug":"watch-trailer-for-mistress-dispeller-spellbinding-doc-on-modern-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24825\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Trailer For ‘Mistress Dispeller,’ “Spellbinding” Doc On Modern Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> \u201cMy family is doomed,\u201d Mrs. Li says with despair in the trailer for the new documentary Mistress Dispeller<\/a>, directed by Elizabeth Lo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat she really means is that her marriage appears kaput \u2013 her husband has been cheating on her with a younger woman. But for Mrs. Li, who lives in China\u2019s Henan province, there is a ray of hope: in China, \u201cmistress dispellers\u201d offer to go undercover to break up a straying husband\u2019s affair.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s the starting point for Lo\u2019s film, which Oscilloscope Laboratories<\/a> will open in theaters on October 22 (it opened in the UK last weekend to what we understand were stellar reviews and sold-out screenings). Actress Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians, Fresh Off the Boat) has come on board Mistress Dispeller as an executive producer. Watch the exclusive trailer for the film above.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOffering strikingly intimate access to a real, unfolding love triangle,\u201d notes a synopsis, \u201cMistress Dispeller documents all sides of what is usually kept behind closed doors. As [mistress dispeller Wang Zhenxi] attempts to bring back a couple 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"(L-R)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) Editor Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, producer Emma D. Miller<\/a>, director Elizabeth Lo, and producer Maggie Li<\/a> attend the \u2018Mistress Dispeller\u2019 photocall during the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVittorio Zunino Celotto\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tLo, a Hong Kong native, comments that she and producers Emma D. Miller and Maggie Li \u201cwanted to document an authentic \u2018mistress dispelling\u2019 case unfolding from beginning to end, in real time.\u201d They connected with Wang Zhenxi who alerted them to the case of Mrs. Li, who had sought her services to break up her husband\u2019s romance with Fei Fei.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2026[S]ome degree of deception was inherent to Wang\u2019s work, and we had to figure out how to handle this ethically,\u201d Lo explains. \u201cThe husband and mistress couldn\u2019t know exactly what the film was about at first in order for us to capture the mistress dispelling process organically. Initially, they were approached by Wang\u2019s business partner about sharing their stories as part of a documentary about modern love in China, and both agreed to participate. Our intention was always to transparently discuss the film\u2019s specifics before production concluded, but we allowed Wang\u2019s typical process to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMistress Dispeller premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, where it won two awards: the Authors Under 40 Award and Netpac Award. It went on to win Best Documentary at the New Orleans Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, and Sonoma International Film Festival. It won the Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary at the Denver Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Mistress<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOscilloscope Laboratories<\/p>\n

\n\tMistress Dispeller is directed and produced by Elizabeth Lo, who also serves as cinematographer, co-editor, and co-writer. Producers are Emma D. Miller and Maggie Li. Charlotte Munch Bengsten (All That Breathes) edited the film and co-wrote it. Ora DeKornfeld co-edited the film. Original music is by Brian McOmber. Along with Constance Wu, executive producers include Nick Shumaker, Jessica Grimshaw, David Levine, Dawn Olmstead, Jenny Raskin, Kelsey Koenig, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Rahdi Taylor, Davis Guggenheim, Steve Cohen, Paula Froehle, and Justine Suzanne Jones.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the trailer for Mistress Dispeller above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: \u201cMy family is doomed,\u201d Mrs. Li says with despair in the trailer for the new documentary Mistress…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,20742,20743,117,19,17,20744,20745,327,20746],"class_list":{"0":"post-24825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-elizabeth-lo","10":"tag-emma-d-miller","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-maggie-li","15":"tag-mistress-dispeller","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-oscilloscope-laboratories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}