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| The film's three stars cut through by vertical lines on the simple poster for Rowan Joffe's Before I Go to Sleep |
Our protagonist is a middle-aged woman, whose amnesia dictates that she every night forgets the day that went before. - But why does she suffer from this condition, and is she really living with her husband?
A suspenseful trailer doesn't naturally make for a good film, as Before I Go to Sleep proves.
Nicole Kidman's (Dogville (2003)) intense, uneasy eyes tell us for much of the film that something isn't right and, in fact, is wrong in a dangerous way. But the characters are too thinly sketched, and the plot too basic to make us react with much more than slightly diverted yawns.
No one distinguishes themselves well or unwell here, and the production seems thin, a little cheep and without too many chords to play on.
Before I Go to Sleep is written and directed by Rowan Joffe (Brighton Rock (2010)), based on the same-titled 2011 bestseller by S.J. Watson (Second Life (2015)). It is hard to get involved in and easily forgotten.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 22 mil. $
Box office: 17.6 mil. $
= Huge flop
[Before I Go to Sleep premiered 4 September (New Zealand) and runs 92 minutes. Ridley Scott bought the film rights for Watson's novel and hired Joffe for adapting and directing the film. Shooting took place in England, including London, from February 2013 - ?. The film opened #15 to a weak 1.8 mil. $ first weekend in 1,902 cinemas in North America, where it only played 2 more weeks and grossed a measly 3.2 mil. $ (18.2 % of the total gross). The biggest market was the UK with 5.3 mil. $ (30.1 %). North America was the 2nd biggest market, and the 3rd biggest was Russia with 1.3 mil. $ (7.4 %). Joffe returned with executive producing, writing for and directing an episode of Tin Star (2017, TV-series), and is set to write Disney's The Graveyard Book. Before I Go to Sleep is rotten at 36 % with a 5/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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