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‘Between the Lights’ Review: Low-Key Romantic Drama with Spiritual Dimension Shows Another Side of England
A modest fable set in the North of England, Michael Groom’s 'Between the Lights' unites a cynical woman with a man who can communicate with spirits.
The plot concerns a romance between Alice (a believable, natural performance from Ines de Clercq in her first substantial feature film role following a clutch of mostly small television assignments) and Jay (Samuel Edward-Cook, convincingly earnest and soulful). This kind of faith vs. empiricism Mulder/Scully dynamic usually reaches a moment where the film needs to decide whose worldview to back, and the demands of an engaging narrative generally make it far more satisfying to see the forces of the uncanny triumph over boring old reality. Whatever your take on such matters in the real world, when it comes to fiction, it’s harder to enjoy “and there was a perfectly logical explanation for everything” as screenwriters work hard to make such reveals compelling (the stock endings of Scooby-Doo mysteries are of course a notable exception).
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