Both performances are commanding, but not as commanding as they might have been. The weaknesses of Helgeland’s writing and directing are also to blame here.

Love & Mercy Movie Review & Film Summary (2. The most heartening surprise about director Bill Pohlad’s. Love and Mercy” is also to my mind a pretty improbable one. That is, that it’s. The rise and fall and rise and.

Brian Wilson, a life story that disproves. Fitzgerald’s adage about there being no second acts in America in what seems like.

Advertisement. But longtime producer Pohlad (“Brokeback Mountain,” “1. Years A Slave”), working from a daring.

Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner, and using two first- rate. Wilson at two turning points in his life, lavishes his material. The result is a. story that’s hair- raisingly watchable and frequently moving, regardless of what. Wilson’s life. The movie shuttles back and forth between two distinct.

In the mid . He’s got. Brian isn’t writing more hits, and. LSD. Eugene Landy, who.

Wilson’s life that he presumed to make himself a partner. Wilson’s music. John Cusack’s Wilson wanders desultorily. Cadillac dealership (although we soon see he’s got a bodyguard trailing. Melinda (Elizabeth Banks), who at first has no idea who the sweetly. After telling her he wants the car in which they’ve stolen.

1. Directed by Gaspar Noé. With Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin, Juan Saavedra. Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and.
2. Directed by Bill Pohlad. With John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti. In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis.

The words he’s. written are “Lonely/Frightened/Scared.”Landy, played with terrifying intensity and smarm by Paul. Giamatti, has by this point in time morphed from someone in service of Wilson. Download Truth (2015) Movie Now. Svengali. His monstrous manipulations are bad enough in. Wilson shrinking at the.

Brian still craves approval—or the. The movie creates a rather. Melinda gets closer and closer to Brian, under. Landy’s paranoid gaze, one wonders just how much fortitude Mr. Wilson’s new. love interest has, and if she has that fortitude, can she get what she needs to. Brian from what he describes as his “hell.” It gets pretty tense.

Meanwhile, back in the . And Banks, who brings equal notes of beauty- queen sunniness and Girl Scout rectitude to her portrayal of Melinda (who did, spoiler alert, become Mrs. Wilson after the events depicted in this film) has an interesting chemistry with the haltingly charming and sometimes tragically wrung- out Cusack.

Advertisement. The movie isn’t perfect: the hairpiece Giamatti sports throughout is so unconvincing that the filmmakers ought to have found away to make a joke of it. But even when Pohlad puts a foot wrong, he does so in an interesting way. This isn’t the kind of movie in which you expect to find a resonating allusion to “2. A Space Odyssey,” and yet there one is. And while I have to say it didn’t quite work for me, I’ve got to give Pohlad credit for nerve.

In any event, there’s more than enough of real value in the movie in spite of that. Not just its content, but its bedrock belief in people, in spite of all the awful things people can do. This philosophy is also a big part of Wilson’s music, a point that’s brought home as the end titles roll.