Film: Pass on the apocalyptic nonsense of San Andreas and head instead to a muted French film, In the Name of My Daughter, about a triangular tug-of-war in Nice. Catherine Deneuve plays the manager and part owner of a tony casino, Guillaume Canet is her lawyer and business advisor Maurice and Adèle Haenel is Agnes, her daughter, who returns home from Africa, fresh from a divorce. Deneuve is embroiled in a desperate attempt to save the casino from insolvency and the clutches of the Mafia, while Agnes – despite warnings – becomes romantically involved with Maurice. Then Agnes mysteriously disappears. This might have played out as a tale of suspense, but director André Téchiné is more interested in the character interplay. Opening this weekend at the Living Room Theaters in Boca Raton, as well as art houses in Delray and Lake Worth.
Theater: In a tidy 90 intermissionless minutes, Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter explores the duplicity of an extramarital affair in his 1978 drama Betrayal, now in its final weekend in a Zoetic Stage production at Miami’s Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theatre. Nicholas Richberg and Amy McKenna play the furtive couple and Chaz Mena is the cuckolded husband in the play which progresses in reverse chronological order, back to the roots of the infidelity. Tickets are $45, through Sunday. Call (305) 949-6722.
Music: Much of the music action has shifted south this weekend, with the Mainly Mozart Festival offering up a world premiere by Palm Beach County’s own Delray String Quartet on Sunday. It’s the Seventh Quartet by Richard Danielpour, who grew up in West Palm Beach, and its last movement has a soprano solo to be sung by the young Cuban-born coloratura Maria Aleida. The score shows it to be a strong and highly communicative work, and should make a good impression on a program that also features music by Mozart, Schubert and Respighi. It’s $20 at the Biltmore Hotel; the concert begins at 4 p.m. Call 786-556-1515 or visit www.mainlymozart.com.
Art: It’s easy to facilely dismiss watercolors as the easy choice for artists, the default medium for empty nesters looking to kill time in the afternoon before dinner rolls around, or the way to get small children started before they graduate to something more elaborate. But the Palm Beach Watercolor Society will make you forget all those notions in its summer show, which formally opens tomorrow afternoon at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County and runs through Aug. 3. The exhibition was juried by Chris Lopez, a painter, graphic artist and photographer who now teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School and has exhibited throughout Europe. The society has been around since 1982, and this annual exhibition always provides a good overview of the expressive possibilities of the medium. The Cultural Council galleries are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Call 471-2901 or visit www.palmbeachculture.com.