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THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY
by Josephine Decker
USA 2014 78 min. original version
fri 21 nov 8:00 pm Kulturpalast
Script: Josephine Decker, David Barker, DoP: Ashley Connor, Editor: Josephine Decker, David Barker, Steven Schardt, Production: Third Room Productions, Artless Media, Truckstop Media, Producers: Laura Heberton, Laura Klein, Russell Scheaffer, Interests Lavalette, Cast: Joe Swanberg, Sophie Traub, Robert Longstreet, Kristin Slaysman, Matt Orme
When Akin arrives at the farm, he finds his job. This is what he expected to find. When Sarah opens her legs, she finds someone watching. This is what she expected to find.
THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY is a highly intimate and subtly erotic thriller inspired by John Steinbeck’s "East of Eden" and featuring love, death, guns, goats, a farmer, his grown daughter and the secrets they no longer succeed in keeping.
"With incisively observed action, quietly cruel dialogue, and a flood of hallucinatory images (...) even the sinewy livestock seems to shudder with reckless passion." (The New Yorker)
"THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY (...) suggest[s] the unholy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch." (Indiewire)
Biography: Josephine Decker was born in London/Great Britain in 1981. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Princeton University, she studied literature, film studies and political science in Buenos Aires/Argentina. She began
shooting her own short films in 2003. Today she works as a screenwriter, director, editor,
actress and producer.
Filmography (Selection): 2013 BUTTER ON THE LATCH, 2014 THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY
Awards: Independent Visions Award (Sarasota Film Festival, USA 2014)
www.thouwastmildandlovely.squarespace.com/
Contact:
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e. V.
Potsdamer Strasse 2
10785 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (30) 26 95 51 00
mail@arsenal-berlin.de
www.arsenal-berlin.de
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