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VARIETY: Josephine Decker’s ‘Butter’ and ‘Lovely’ Bought by Cinelicious

Mild and Lovely

VARIETY
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 | 09:29AM PT
Carole Horst

Cinelicious Pics has acquired all North American rights to Josephine Decker’s “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,” above.

A theatrical and VOD release is planned for November.

Tyro distrib Cinelicious Pics aims to bring an eclectic mix of U.S. indie and foreign features and docs to auds via theatrical release, VOD and Blu-ray. It also handles 4K-restored arthouse and cult classics, brought to pristine viewing quality by sister post and digital restoration studio Cinelicious.

The deal was negotiated by Cinelicious Pics’ president Paul Korver, president of business affairs Kristine Blumensaadt and exec VP Dennis Bartok, with Ben Weiss and Meghan Oliver from Paradigm and Craig F. Cohen of McCue Sussmane & Zapfel.

“Paul and I are incredibly excited to be working with Josephine on her first two features, which have a beautiful, sensual, poetic and intensely visual style that sets her apart from many indie filmmakers today,” says Bartok. “Her work reminds me in a wonderful way of filmmakers like David Lynch and Nicolas Roeg but with a voice all her own.”

“I’m thrilled to be bursting out of the gate with a company who is also hurtling into new territory,” says Decker. “The guys at Cinelicious are passionate, visionary film lovers, incredibly hard workers and just good people. I feel very lucky to be working with them.”

BUTTER ON THE LATCH

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BUTTER ON THE LATCH

2014 | dir: Josephine Decker | 72 min

IN THEATERS ON DEMAND

Former performance artist Josephine Decker’s stunning debut feature is a deeply subjective, mysterious and erotic portrait of a frantic young woman, Sarah (Sarah Small) who leaves the city for the apparent safety of a Balkan music camp hidden deep in the California woods. Once there she reconnects with a former friend, Isolde (played by Korean-American puppeteer Isolde Chae-Lawrence) and does some hilariously foul-mouthed female bonding – until she finds herself growing attracted to a hunky male camper, Steph (Charlie Hewson). Gradually her already-frayed grip on reality starts to unravel, as cinematographer Ashley Connor’s superb, disorienting camerawork and the swirling Balkan music become darker and more disorienting. Her personality finally shatters in a moment of transcendent violence that causes us to question whether we too have become lost in the deep, impenetrable forest of fear and desire.

Part Bergman’s PERSONA, part early David Lynch, BUTTER ON THE LATCH is a tour-de-force of intensely visceral filmmaking intercut with moments of serene, startling poetry.

#10 Best Movie of 2014 by The New Yorker

“the kind of feature debut the film industry simply doesn’t support, but would do well to encourage: a visually poetic, virtually free-form groove in which emotion, rather than narrative, guides viewers through a young woman’s visit to a Balkan folk music camp”
Peter Debruge – Variety

“I was putty in Decker’s hands…”
Mark Lukenbill – Hammer to Nail

“Elegant and elliptical, Josephine Decker’s psychodrama is a blurring of the line between waking and dream states.”
Michael Nordine – The Village Voice

“an utter exhilaration of cinematic imagination, a pure high of invention”
Richard Brody – The New Yorker

“a sexy, wild romp you have to see to believe”
Eric Kohn – Indiewire

“Butter on the Latch thrives on its casually true snapshots of confusion and connection.”
Nicolas Rapold – The New York Times

“a fascinating and truly original work of art”
Christopher Bourne – TwitchFilm

IN THEATERS AND ON DEMAND NOVEMBER 14TH
Oct 23-26, 2014 Flyway Film Festival Lake Pepin, WI get ’em
Nov 14, 2014 MINY Media Center by IFP – US THEATRICAL PREMIERE Brooklyn, NY get ’em
Nov 15, 2014 MINY Media Center by IFP – US THEATRICAL PREMIERE Brooklyn, NY get ’em
Nov 16, 2014 MINY Media Center by IFP – US THEATRICAL PREMIERE Brooklyn, NY get ’em
Nov 17, 2014 MINY Media Center by IFP – US THEATRICAL PREMIERE Brooklyn, NY get ’em
Nov 18, 2014 MINY Media Center by IFP – US THEATRICAL PREMIERE Brooklyn, NY get ’em
Nov 19, 2014 MINY Media Center by IFP – US THEATRICAL PREMIERE Brooklyn, NY get ’em
Nov 20, 2014 MINY Media Center by IFP – US THEATRICAL PREMIERE Brooklyn, NY get ’em
Jan 31, 2016 3S Artspace Portsmouth, NH get ’em


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