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Thou Wast Mild and Lovely

There are places you go, where the things you do will matter to a lot of people. Then there are places you will go, where the things you will do matter only to a very few. But to those few, they will matter a lot.


Partly told from the perspective of a cow, Josephine Decker's narrative feature focuses on the sensual inner life of a woman, her father and the man they hire to work their farm.


Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is a sensual thriller inspired by East of Eden and starring love, death, guns, goats and a farm in the wilds of Kentucky. Starring Joe Swanberg, Sophie Traub, and Robert Longstreet and directed by Josephine Decker, this feature film explores eroticism in lonely places.

YEAR

2014

RUN TIME

94m

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DIRECTOR

Josephine Decker

World Premiere: Berlinale, Forum, 2014

Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2014

Sarasota Film Festival, 2014

Nashville Film Festival, 2014

Maryland Film Festival, 2014

BAMcinemaFest, 2014

Galway Film Festival, 2014

Fantasia Film Festival, 2014

New Horizons International Film Festival, 2014

London Film Festival, 2014

Leiden Film Festival, 2014

Cork Film Festival, 2014

AFI Film Festival, 2014

Torino Film Festival, 2014

Written and Directed by Josephine Decker


Starring Joe Swanberg, Sophie Traub, Robert Longstreet, and Kristin Slaysman


Co-Written by David Barker

Edited by Josephine Decker, David Barker, and Steven Schardt

Director of Photography Ashley Connor

Production Design by Sarah O'Brien

Music by Molly Herron

Produced by Laura Klein, Laura Heberton, Lavallette Interests Ltd., and Russell Sheaffer

Co-Produced by Adam Donaghey, Rachel Wolther, Braden King, and Linda Olbrych

Associate Producers Amanual AG, Matthew Decker, William Gerber, Katrina Lencek-Inagaki, Iain Marcks, Regina Ryan, Atemis Shaw, Sarah Small

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