THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY

By Josephine DECKER

GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL - as DISTR VOD, SWEDEN

Erotic - Completed 2014

A man finds himself a job on a farm in the wilds of Kentucky, only to learn perhaps he was hired for reasons far more complex than just
farm work. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is a highly intimate and subtly erotic thriller inspired by John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2014
Forum
Fantasia IFF 2014
Official Selection
BFI London FF 2014
Dare
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Erotic, Thriller
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Josephine DECKER
    • Writer(s)
    • Josephine DECKER, David BARKER
    • Producer(s)
    • Josephine DECKER, Laura KLEIN, Laura HEBERTON
    • Synopsis
    • 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. When Jeremiah opens his mouth, frightening things come out of it. This has come to be expected. But
      what happens by the creek next to the cow. This was not expected.
      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.