'' Thou Wast Mild and Lovely '' received a positive response from critics . Richard Brody of '' The New Yorker '' highly praised the film , saying " Like most classic stories , this one is simple , but its realization is so surprising in its details , so original in its visual invention , as to make most other movies seem shot by the numbers . " and " Normally it would be an insult to say that a movie that runs a mere hour and a quarter feels as if it were much longer , but here it ’s both accurate and high praise : vast realms of emotional experience are condensed into the movie ’s brief span . " In a subsequent piece for '' The New Yorker '' , Brody named '' Thou Wast Mild and Lovely '' the second best film of 2014 , just behind Wes Anderson 's '' The Grand Budapest Hotel '' . Brody also listed Robert Longstreet as " Best Supporting Actor " ; Ashley Connor in " Best Cinematography " . Decker 's other 2014 film , '' Butter on the Latch '' , also made the Brody 's top ten , clocking in at tenth place . Subsequent to its Berlinale 2014 premiere , Peter Knegt of '' Indiewire '' called '' Thou Wast Mild and Lovely '' " The talk of the Berlin International Film Festival … with tense eroticism and experimental , largely free-form filmmaking " . Josh Slater-Williams of '' Sound on Sight '' called it " one of the strongest , most striking American Gothic works of recent memory . " In his review of the film , Eric Kohn of '' Indiewire '' gave the film a B rating and commented , " Its labyrinthine characteristics suggest the unholy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch " and " Decker concocts a wholly enveloping vision of isolation told with a grimly poetic style that wanders all over the place but never stops playing by its own eerie rulebook . " Jenni Miller of '' The A.V. Club '' moderately praised the film and described Sophie Traub 's Sarah as " fascinating " , despite noting " There are a few too many experimental flourishes to effectively build the sort of tension that ’s necessary to really make the ending pay off . " Nicolas Rapold of '' The New York Times '' gave the film a more mixed review , noting " The setup 's clichés grow harder to ignore , despite a welcome mischievous streak and some bucolic imagery . " David Rooney of '' The Hollywood Reporter '' stated , " It 's not uninteresting but too self-consciously arty to rank Decker as a mature filmmaking voice . " '' Thou Wast Mild and Lovely '' premiered in the U.S. at the Sarasota Film Festival , and internationally at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum section . It has also played at the AFI Fest , the BFI London Film Festival , the Torino Film Festival , the Hong Kong International Film Festival , the Gothenburg Film Festival , the Athens International Film Festival , the Denver Film Festival , the Dallas VideoFest , the Flyway Film Festival , the Sidewalk Film Festival , the Fantasia International Film Festival , the Galway Film Fleadh , the BAMcinemFest and the Imagine Film Festival in the Netherlands
Imagine Film Festival
Imagine Film Festival
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely