King, who co-produced the film and is best known for Netflix’s “The Kissing Booth” trilogy, and Allen, who played one of the Jets in “West Side Story” and will next suit up as He-Man for a live-action adaptation of “Masters of the Universe,” make an appealing couple, even if they look more like college juniors than high schoolers.
#The inn between documentary movie#
The filmmakers occasionally make baffling choices, such as a PG-13-rated but still surprising sex scene that feels out of place, considering this is the kind of movie in which fireworks go off in the sky when the couple shares their first kiss. “The In Between” was written by Marc Klein (“Serendipity,” “Mirror Mirror”) and directed by Arie Posin (“The Face of Love”) with an utter lack of guile that its intended young-teen audience will relish (the movie is streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus). In dreams, Skylar appears to her and says, “I’m still here.” But what does he want, and how will Tessa communicate with him? INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart,” a song she and Skylar loved, starts playing on her cellphone during class. Mysterious photos she never took develop and then disappear in her darkroom. Meanwhile, in the present-day, Tessa starts receiving messages that suggest Skylar is trying to communicate with her from beyond the grave.
He also happens to be a lifeguard - a living embodiment of boyfriend-lottery jackpot. 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. She’s a budding photographer who keeps the world at bay through the lens of her camera.
Tessa, a guarded and withdrawn orphan who remains distant from her adoptive parents, doesn’t trust people easily. By the end of the movie, they are holding hands. When Tessa complains the French-language film doesn’t have subtitles, Skylar sits next to her and starts to translate every line of dialogue. 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).
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