Before I Go to Sleep

Every morning Christina wakes up and does not understand where she is and who she is. From the words of a stranger who claims to be her husband, a woman learns the truth about her past. For twelve years now, she has been suffering from a special form of amnesia, when Christina forgets everything overnight after falling asleep. It was all due to an accident that happened in the second year of her life together with her husband, Ben. Dr. Nash tries to shed light on forgotten moments, who asks the heroine to secretly keep a video diary of her husband. Trying to remember herself leads to the fact that the woman reveals some details of her life that Ben hides. Read more Rowan Joffe wrote the screenplay for his film based on the literary work of SJ Watson, which was published in 2001 and became a bestseller. The impetus for the novel was a real story. According to her, an 82-year-old woman woke up every morning thinking that she was still 26 years old. Lisa Marshall, the producer, wanted to embody Watson's work in the form of a film. After reading the book in 2011, she immediately contacted the book's author to discuss buying the film adaptation rights. It was Marshal who asked Joffe to take up the script and direction. Rowan was struck by the story of a woman suffering from a special form of amnesia, as his mother was also prone to this pathology. The author of the book "Before I Sleep" practically did not participate in the adaptation of the novel, as he believed that the script was Rowan Joffe's personal vision of what he had read. It was decided immediately that Nicole Kidman would play the main female role, later she personally asked Colin Firth if he wanted to join her. The actress signed the contract in February 2012, and Firth signed almost a year later. Filming took place in a studio near London, because the plot of the tangled drama "Before I Sleep" in the novel unfolds in the vicinity of this city.