2015 · drama · music · history
Love & Mercy
Directed by Bill Pohlad2h 0m2015
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, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
Our read: Love & Mercy (2015) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive drama · music · history entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / music, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- redemptive
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