(***NY TIMES Critics Pick***)
“A highly unusual film, an experimental surrender to the artistic unknown…boggles the mind yet teases the eye.”
– Jeannette Catsoulis NEW YORK TIMES (click here for review)

“[Lord Byron] takes on the dreamy air of a vision.”
– Michael Atkinson, THE VILLAGE VOICE (click here for review)

“Lord Byron remains one of the year’s more memorable micro-budget achievements…drawn from a Southern pot of gumbo to deliver another peculiar dose of ecstatic truth.”
– Michael Tully, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE (click here for review)

“Byron is one of the most fascinating characters of [Sundance]…endearingly strange…[the film's] charms are considerable.”
-Michael Dunaway, PASTE MAGAZINE

“Artisanal and unpretentious, Lord Byron feels more like something out of the 1980s experimental video scene in Milwaukee. It’s the increasingly rare kind of American indie that knows that technical mastery and conventionally beautiful cinematography are no guarantee for good filmmaking. So it pursues its characters’ questions, philosophical and mundane, embracing the jerkiness of the camera, the spontaneity of nonprofessional actors, and a refreshing anti-aesthetic.”
– Diego Costa, SLANT MAGAZINE

“A provocative collage! Built around unreliable narrators, delusional Southerners, incongruous music and outright lies…Godshall shows a deep intelligence.”
– John Anderson, VARIETY

“A spicy Jambalaya mix of odd sorts!  The characters are the film’s main delight, starting with Byron, a rotund lummox of a man but whose generous disposition always stirs our interest.”
– Duane Byrge, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“A wonderfully alive, character-rich ode to living in the moment.”
– Jennifer Prediger, GRIST

PROFILES
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, Sundance Directors Spotlight
Indiewire: Meet the 2011 Sundance Filmmakers