Wang Zhengxi, the mistress dispeller in the film, is part-therapist and part-life coach to her clients.

Early on in the remarkable documentary Mistress Dispeller by Hong Kong filmmaker Elizabeth Lo , one of the subjects captures a feeling everyone in a struggling relationship has had at some point – no one expects their marriage to fail.

Regardless of all the statistics bandied about around divorce or exposure to miserable couples who shouldn’t be together, everyone assumes they will make it. Or, as Mrs. Li puts it, “I can imagine an affair happening in any family but my own.”

“The two of us used to be so close,” she says of her husband. “Now it feels like there is an invisible sheet of paper between us, that my feelings are being blocked and I can’t reach out to him.”

Mrs. Li

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