Ich. Darf. Nicht. Schlafen. (2014)

Ich. Darf. Nicht. Schlafen.: Directed by Rowan Joffe. With Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Ben Crompton. A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

“In 1995, there was a movie called u0026quot;While You Were Sleepingu0026quot;, a romantic vehicle for Sandra Bullock, but this 2014 similarly-titled work is very different: a thriller with Nicole Kidman in the central role as Christine, a woman who suffered a serious assault years ago and now forgets everything each time she sleeps. Two men are trying to help her, husband Ben (Colin Firth) and therapist Dr Nash (Mark Strong). Like most standard thrillers, we find that our assessments of the principals swing back and forth before u0026#39;the big revealu0026#39;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere is a sub-genre of movies involving limited memory – think u0026quot;Blinku0026quot;, u0026quot;The Bourne Identityu0026quot; or u0026quot;50 First Datesu0026quot; to name just a few – and u0026quot;Before I Go To Sleepu0026quot; is not the best of them (that would be u0026quot;Mementou0026quot;) but, if one does not think too much about the implausible narrative, this is entertaining enough, helped by good source material (the best-selling novel by S J Watson) and the solid acting (Kidman with a good English accent, Firth not as straighforwardly charming as he is usually, Strong not as as unremittingly threatening as he is so often).”