"The Invisible Circus" covers familiar territory — Sixties radicalism — with unexpected twists. Director Adam Brooks, who adapted the novel by Jennifer Egan, is telling a ghost story. Eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor (Jordana Brewster) is haunted by her sister Faith (Cameron Diaz), a political revolutionary who killed herself in Portugal in 1971. Why? Six years later, Phoebe leaves San Francisco and her widowed mom (Blythe Danner) to find out, retracing Faith's European odyssey. That includes a trip to Paris to catch up with Faith's former lover, Wolf (Christopher Eccleston). Brewster is a talent to watch. And Diaz, seen only in flashbacks, makes Faith a magnetic figure. The script hits rough patches, especially when Phoebe and Wolf get it on, but the sisters cut to the heart.

“Let My Love Open the Door”

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."