TITLE: Before I Go To Sleep
YEAR: 2013
DIRECTOR: Rowan Joffe
SCREENWRITER: Rowan Joffe (based on the novel by S.J. Watson)
IN BRIEF:
There's a good idea behind the otherwise predictable twist (although to be fair, another predictable twist is in itself turned on its head). You have to buy that Nicole Kidman is able to keep a camera hidden in her wardrobe and that at no point does Colin Firth find it. It clearly wants to evoke Hitchcock, from the hysterical shrieky strings in the trailer to the Norman Bates peephole from Psycho while the central premise recalls both those of Memento and 50 First Dates (admittedly at time of writing, this author has only seen bits of the latter but ones gets the gist of it). It is really only went the predictable twist occurs that the suspense ramps up and after things go a bit Tom & Jerry, the closing coda seems like a quiet fading, wrap-up. Good performance from Colin Firth though.
