Thou Wast Mild and Lovely

“Suggests the unholy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch.”—Indiewire

Evoking John Steinbeck’s classic novel East of Eden and the films of Terrence Malick, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is a simmering erotic thriller following an alcoholic farmer, his adult daughter, and a hired hand (Joe Swanberg) who starts up a romance with the vulnerable daughter, but fails to mention his wife and child back home. As Richard Brody of the New Yorker noted, the film is “so surprising in its details, so original in its visual invention, as to make most other movies seem (at least temporarily) shot by the numbers.” (79 mins., DCP)