The Belcourt Theatre and Third Man Records is proud to present February's Light + Sound Machine screening: Josephine Decker's THOU WAST MILD & LOVELY preceded by Decker's short film ME THE TERRIBLE. The films will be shown Thursday February 19th at 8pm with doors at 7pm. Purchase tickets here.

Director Josephine Decker’s highly-acclaimed second feature unfolds with the lyricism and inexorable sense of tragedy of an ancient Appalachian murder ballad. Indie icon Joe Swanberg (director of HAPPY CHRISTMAS and DRINKING BUDDIES) delivers a beautifully understated performance as Akin, a soft-spoken farmworker who takes a summer job working for the belligerent, domineering Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), who lives in incestuous isolation with his daughter. Sophie Traub’s performance as the daughter, Sarah, has the sun-dappled quality of one of Andrew Wyeth’s Helga paintings: hers is a completely innocent and destructive sexuality, overripe to the point of bursting. Decker’s vision of Paradise Lost – dew clinging to a spider’s web, the insistent hum of insects, a young girl writhing on the grass – is unforgettably poetic and erotic, and seems to echo down from ages past.

Purchase advance tickets here, or, if you're a Belcourt member, head to belcourt.org for discounted tickets.