Broken Sleep: Wanting More

Time travel is my favorite genre - as a reader, writer, and viewer - so how could I resist watching Broken Sleep , which turned out to be a 12-minute gem of a short, on Amazon Prime (2018, year listed as 2017 in the movie).

Emily from the 1840s travels into Nathan's tattoo parlor in the present.  There's no scientific explanation offered for how this happens, which makes Broken Sleep more magical realism than science fiction.   But that's ok.  The same is true of Outlander.

The time-traveling has something to do with Emily drifting off to sleep.  The two fall in love, and need to figure out a way of staying together, which takes into account Emily's sleep cycles and its effects.   See the movie to see if they succeed.

Broken Sleep is beautifully filmed and touchingly told.   Tom Dowuona-Hyde wrote and directed. Tom Beaurepaire and Senie Priti are fine as Nathan and Emily.  There are, basically, two kinds of short movies which are good:  One kind leaves you thorough satisfied after watching the limited number of minutes on the screen.  The other kind leaves you hungering for more - a full-length treatment.   The tender story in Broken Sleep was definitely the latter for me.   I'll definitely be back here with a review of the full length move, if ever one is made, and I get a chance to see it.   No, I'll make sure I see it.


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