Between the Lights

This film was a highlight of London Breeze Film Festival last October. It is a wonderfully atmospheric haunted love story. The performances are excellent and really draw you in. Set across three Christmases, it plays with time in a creative way to keep you intrigued and invested.

I loved the settings - York and Keswick. There are great shots out on the moors, and the original soundtrack also adds to the atmosphere and stays with you for some time afterwards.

This is a perfect Christmas film - a ghost story that can be rewatched annually to get you in that Christmas mood.

Highly recommended.

It's nearly impossible to review this film without including spoilers, and this film is best watched knowing as little as possible. It's a love story and a spiritual exploration while never leaning too heavily on either. Also, the writers play with time in such a way that the audience wonders where on the timeline each scene might be (or are there multiple timelines?).

The talented writers understand that not every scene must push the plot forward and are happy to take their time with two excellent leads, letting us get to know them and vicariously experiencing their obvious chemistry.

Whether you're a skeptic, a believer or a romantic, or if you simply enjoy beautiful English settings, you will find this wonderful story is a pleasure to view. The film warrants multiple screenings not only to appreciate its depth and complexity, but also because it is a way to honor the excellent work these producers created.

Between the Lights shows us love can be found at the heart of spirituality and spirituality is at the heart of love.

I managed to catch Between the Lights at the Keswick Film Festival. A beautiful, emotive and poignant film set against the stunning backdrop of both the Lake District and beautiful city of York, with a love story at the heart of the film, and a great chemistry between the two main roles, it wasn't quite what I was expecting. It was the exploration of realms of spirituality that stayed with me long after watching, capturing Alices journey from skepticism to spiritual discovery whilst falling in love with someone who was already emersed in the spirit world, invited viewers to look at their own beliefs and kept me hooked.

And to finish, the soundtrack is eerily wonderful!

Looking forward to being able to watch again.

Between the Lights has stuck with me unlike any film I've seen in a truly long time. It's like a feeling surrounding you that lingers and keeps you in its aura, thinking about it. Visually it is a spectacular, beautiful film. The music creates an entire otherworldly experience. The entire film stays with you, envelops you in its magic. I was lucky enough to see the movie around the holidays and months later I am still thinking about it.

It was more than a film-more of a thought provoking transcendent experience that you find yourself turning over and feeling. I would love to study this film, and if I taught I would absolutely assign it. It lends itself to extremely thoughtful and deep discussion and feeling.

It's hard to describe the impact that this film had on me without spoilers, but I'm going to try and do so. It manages to mix haunting surreality with questioning reality. As the film developed I found myself asking what was real. It is an emotional love story that left me feeling Alice's emotions. Afterwards it took me a while to come away from those feelings. Some of the scenes are filmed in such a way that you feel that you're there sitting in the bar, listening to the songs. The beautiful Keswick town and countryside are portrayed in a very understated way, perfect to suit the film. The passing of time, or not, which questions the reality of time is really well portrayed within the film. When I was a student I was profoundly affected by the film 'Truly madly deeply'. This film had the same effect on me and will stay with me forever. The only criticism I have is that at times it was difficult to hear the dialogue clearly.