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Elizabeth Lo interview CAAMfest
"I believe in love."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur9yz-vbFII&ab_channel=AsianMoviePulse

(2024) marks Hong Kong filmmaker ‘s sophomore feature. In this documentary, we watch a middle-aged, married couple consult a “mistress dispeller” — that is, an outside professional — to salvage their relationship, after one of them cozies up to a younger woman at work.

On the occasion of the screening of MISTRESS DISPELLER (2024), we caught Elizabeth Lo over Zoom to talk about treating production as a “passport” to stay abroad, the deception of the titular Mistress Dispeller, and parsing romance from love.

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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