The Place Between

"A Place Between" is like no other movie. Taking home movies from various families that were offered for sale on the internet, Chris Peters has woven them together to create an emotional journey into American family life in the fifties and sixties. He's overlaid a storyline roughly based on Dante's Purgatorio wherein a lost soul searches for his identity through what seems like the Bardo, the place between life and death. He eventually discovers who he was and who he loved in his time on the planet. The editing is excellent and the voice over actors, including Samantha Sloyan and Guy Kent, are compelling and believable. What involved me was the dream-like quality of seeing the world through the eyes of someone who can roam through realities and take it all in without being able to participate. That becomes a metaphor for the experience of all movie lovers. "The Place Between" allows us to appreciate both the beauty and the ephemeral nature of being alive. Highly recommended.