Love & Mercy (12A) Friday 25th – 27th July

Director: Bill Pohlad

Cast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks

Runtime: 2hrs

This screening is a tribute to the late musical genius, Brian Wilson.

Love & Mercy is a 2014 American biographical drama film about the legendary Beach Boys’ co-founder and leader, Brian Wilson and his struggles with mental illness during the 1960s and 1980s.

It stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as the young and older Wilson, respectively, with Elizabeth Banks as his second wife Melinda Ledbetter and Paul Giamatti as his psychologist Dr Eugene Landy.

The title comes from Wilson’s 1988 song of the same name.

“Dano is brilliant as Wilson, a career-best for him: his deceptively blank, bland, open face and disconcertingly quiet speaking voice are put to great use, sympathetically recreating Wilson’s gentleness, persistence and suppressed agony – John Cusack plays the later Wilson, an unhappy, zombiefied and sedated man under the thumb of his controlling manager, Dr Eugene Landy. Wilson comes into a Cadillac dealership one afternoon and falls in love with the woman selling him a car – Melinda Ledbetter, a smart, controlled performance from Elizabeth Banks. This is the woman who is to rescue Wilson.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Friday 25th July, 7.30 PM

Saturday 26th July, 7.30 PM

Sunday 27th July, 7.30 PM