‘The In Between’ Review: Joey King Follows ‘The Kissing Booth’ With a Familiar Love-Never-Dies Romance
11.02.2022 - 23:15
/ variety.com
Rene Rodriguez The spirit of “Ghost” literally haunts “The In Between,” a romance about two high school students whose love affair is tragically cut short, including a cameo by the poster for the 1990 blockbuster which starred Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. This time, the star-crossed lovers are teenagers — Tessa (Joey King) and Skylar (Kyle Allen) — who are involved in a car accident in the movie’s first scene.
Skyler is killed and Tessa is hospitalized with a critical injury to her heart, an example of the film’s less-than-subtle use of metaphors.Using a split timeline, “The In Between” alternates between the past, recounting how Tessa and Skylar fell in love, and the present, in which the grieving Tessa starts to believe her late boyfriend is trying to communicate with her from beyond the grave. The teens meet at a revival screening of Jean-Jacques Beneix’s 1986 tale of amour fou, “Betty Blue,” in which they are the only two people in the theater (the film was shot during the COVID pandemic).
When Tessa complains the French-language film doesn’t have subtitles, Skylar sits next to her and starts to translate every line of dialogue. By the end of the movie, they are holding hands.Tessa, a guarded and withdrawn orphan who remains distant from her adoptive parents, doesn’t trust people easily.
She’s a budding photographer who keeps the world at bay through the lens of her camera. But she is disarmed by the handsome and polite boy who speaks three languages, has read Wharton and Austen, and is a member of their school’s rowing team.
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