There’s only so much you can do when you catch your spouse stepping out on you – cry, get a divorce, forgive. In China, they’ve come up with an additional option when such circumstances present themselves (an admittedly not infrequent scenario for couples all around the world). There, you can hire someone to “intervene” in the love triangle, in surreptitious fashion.
This phenomenon is explored in Mistress Dispeller, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival before heading to TIFF for its international premiere and on to the Camden International Film Festival for its U.S. premiere.
At Camden, Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast caught up with director Elizabeth Lo , who shared insights about her intriguing new film and how she negotiated its inherent ethical considerations. At CIFF, located on Maine’s bucolic central coast, we also talked with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa , who brought Apocalypse in the Tropics to Camden following its world premiere in Venice. The film documents the growing might of evangelical Christians in Brazil’s politics.
They’re building a Christian nationalist movement that will sound distinctly familiar to those keeping an eye on parallel developments in far-right corners of the American political scene. (In fact, Costa shows how famed Baptist minister and evangelist Billy Graham helped lay the groundwork for the movement through a pilgrimage he made to the South American country in the 1970s, during Brazil’s military dictatorsh.
