*** Dallas VideoFest Winner 2014: Best Narrative Feature ***

*** Sarasota Film Festival 2014 Winner: Independent Visions Grand Prize & Tangerine Entertainment’s Juice Award ***

*** Flyway Film Festival 2014: Breakout Filmmaker ***

*** Indie Memphis Film Festival 2014: Craig Brewer Emerging Filmmaker Award ***

*** Hong Kong International Film Festival Nominee 2014: FIPRESCI prize ***

HIGHLIGHTED PRESS

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is "one of the strongest, most striking American Gothic works of recent memory"

Sound on Sight
October 2014

"the Steinbeck-inspired milieu is viscerally manipulated into a menacing pressure-cooker that ends vividly and ferociously for some of the players— including one innocent frog. Even if Terrence Malick’s naturalistic rural cinematics dripped with as many feral pleasures and mischievous surprises, it’s doubtful they’d ever be otherworldly enough to embrace the time-panning POV of a wandering cow"

Bright Ideas
The White Witch’s Rabid Wolverines
April 2015

"With incisively observed action, quietly cruel dialogue, and a flood of hallucinatory images...even the sinewy livestock seem to shudder with reckless passion"

The New Yorker
Delusions and Grandeur
June 2014

"Decker throws herself into the urgency, the infinite promise, and the danger of the cinema—and she seems to live, and to thrive, on the edge of that danger."

The New Yorker
A Star is Born
November 2014

"Like most classic stories, this one is simple, but its realisation is so surprising in its details, so original in its visual invention, as to make most other movies seem shot by the numbers."

The New Yorker
Pay Attention to Josephine Decker
February 2014

"Thou Wast Mild and Lovely...suggest[s] the unholy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch"

Indiewire - Berlin Review: Sexual Depravity Takes On Nightmarish Proportions In Josephine Decker's 'Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,' Starring Joe Swanberg
February 2014

"The talk of the Berlin International Film Festival… with tense eroticism and experimental, largely free-form filmmaking"

Indiewire - Berlinale Breakout: Josephine Decker On Her Much Discussed Festival Double Featurand Berlinale Breakouts: 10 Folks That Made a Major Impression At This Year's Festival
February 2014

Bitch Magazine - Filmmaker Josephine Decker Discusses Darkness, Sexuality, and the Problem with Wes Anderson
April 2014

SELECTED PRESS

The Hairpin - The Women of Our Year -- Freeing the Inner Wilderness: A Conversation with Filmmaker Josephine Decker

The Village Voice - The Cow POV Shots Aren't the Only Great Thing in Thou Wast Mild and Lovely

Filmmaker Magazine - 2014 Sarasota Film Festival Award Winners *** Winner 2014: Independent Visions Grand Prize ***

Indiewire - Thou Wast Mild and Lovely among Top Sarasota Film Festival Winners *** Winner 2014: Tangerine Entertainment’s Juice Award ***

"keeps you guessing whether the film will erupt into some kind of fantastic eroticism or a violent bloodbath, or something weirder involving animals… or a combination of all three"

Cult Montreal - Today at Fantasia
July 2014

"a dream-like exploration of sexuality and tragedy"

SRQ Backlot - Writer/Director Josephine Decker Talks Thou Wast Mild & Lovely, The Sarasota Film Festival, and Plans for the Future
April 2014

"Decker plunges us into the inner worlds of her characters, unveiling the complexity of their entanglements without having to spell anything out"

Montreal Gazette - Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is not what you're expecting
July 2014

"Rarely has desire been represented on screen with such eloquence and creativity."

Montreal Gazette - Fantasia programmers pick their must-see movies
July 2014

"a sweet dream that is destined to turn into a night terror you can’t shake out of."

Cinecola - Thou Wast Mild and Lovely Review
February 2014

"turns conventional narrative wisdom upside down, much like the work of lyricism-prone contemporaries Shane Carruth, Leos Carax and Terrence Malick...By turns nightmarish, titillating and dreamlike, Thou Wast is one hell of an experiential enigma"

Exclaim! - Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
July 2014

"one of the biggest joys of the festival was the discovery of Josephine Decker"

Still in Berlin - Discover This
February 2014

Josephine Decker's films were "commendable for their brazenly surreal approach"

The Skinny - Berlinale Review
February 2014

"sure to haunt many"

Smells Like Screen Spirit - Thou Wast Mild and Lovely Review
February 2014

"As the characters writhe together in dust, the cows look on, like silent observers of an ancient transgressive ritual"

Indiewire - Sexual Depravity Takes on Nightmarish Proportions in Josephine Decker's Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
February 2014

"one of the film's great pleasures is seeing how its constantly uneasy tone evolves and pays off"

24FPS - London Film Fest 2014
September 2014

“Decker's intimate approach has an immersive effect and the woozy, elliptical visuals give an impression of both romantic intoxication and things spiralling out of control. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is as horrible as it is beautiful and that's just grand.”

The Arts Desk - LFF 2014: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
October 2014

"Through frenetic editing and a discordant string-based score (by Molly Herron and Jeff Young), Decker constantly distorts, disorients and transforms her quiet country idyll into a landscape of longing and loss occasionally punctuated by behaviour most bestial. Thou Wast Mild And Lovely is a true one-off, carrying both secrets and great tension in its shimmering shoulders."

Grolsch Filmworks - LFF 2014: THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY
October 2014

Filmmaker Magazine - Trailer Watch: Josephine Decker's Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
October 2014

Indiewire - LFF Women Directors: Josephine Decker - 'Butter on the Latch' & 'Thou Wast Mild and Lovely'
October 2014

Mild Concern - BFI London Film Festival 2014 Line-up
October 2014

Indiewire - Cinelicious Pics Acquires Two Raunchy Josephine Decker Films
September 2014

Dazed - The women taking over BFI London Film Festival
September 2014

Little White Lies UK - London Film Festival 2014: 20 Films We Want to See
September 2014

Huffington Post - Clooneymania to Nymphomania Climaxing in a Double Decker Zeitgeist.
February 2014

Brooklyn Magazine - The Most Promising Young Filmmakers in Brooklyn
June 2014

The Wall Street Journal - Going Beyond Brooklyn's Hipness With Bold Debuts
July 2014

Hyperallergic - Debuts Distinguish BAMcinemaFest 2014
June 2014

BlackBook - 20 Films to See This Week
June 2014