Brian Wilson biopic ‘Love & Mercy’ to open June 20

The Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater will present “Love & Mercy” and “Misericordia,” starting Friday, June 20.

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson (John Cusack) is under the sway of a controlling therapist (Paul Giamatti), but he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks). The biographical drama was named after one of Wilson's songs.

From director Alain Guiraudie, the historical drama “Misericordia” is set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie. The film follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his mentor's family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while developing a friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). In Guiraudie's quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire.

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