This quietly existential ambivalence on the nature of love, balanced with a deep empathy for each character makes Mistress Dispeller compulsively watchable.
Reporting back from MIFF 2021, Sean Fallon reviews Come Back Anytime, Set!, Stray, Ablaze and The Witches of the Orient!
A deeply philosophical film, it loses much of its impact when the cameras stop rolling.
Filmmaker Elizabeth Lo follows the plight of three stray dogs as they find human companionship on the streets of Turkey.