Dream Of A Life
The documentary movie is where Carol Morley first made a name for herself back in 2000 and next week her new movie Dreams of a Life will be screened at the BFI London Film Festival.
Morley grabbed everyone's attention at the beginning of the noughties with her directorial debut The Alcohol Years, which was a documentary movie.
The movie saw the director to her hometown of Manchester to discover what happened in the period she can no longer remember due to alcohol abuse.
Morley went ton to direct and write Everyday Someday and The Madness of the Dance - both of which were short movies - before moving into features.
2010 saw her move away from the documentary to tackle the live action movie genre with Edge.
The film saw her bring together a cast of Maxine Peake, Marjorie Yates and Joe Dempsie and it premiered at the London Film Festival twelve months ago.
The movie was set in a hotel at the edge of a cliff and followed six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves.
It looks set to get a theatrical release in the new year.
But 2011 sees her return to the BFI London Film Festival with her latest project Dreams of a Life.
Nobody noticed when thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003.
When her skeleton was discovered three years later, her heating and her television were still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of Joyce’s life- not even a photograph.
Who was Joyce Vincent? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age the so-called age of communication? Dreams of a Life is Carol Morley’s quest to discover who Joyce was and how she came to be so forgotten.
Morley places adverts in newspapers, on the Internet and on the side of a London taxi and discovers Joyce’s former friends, lovers and colleagues. Their testimonies, together with re-imagined scenes from Joyce’s life, form a multi-layered portrait of Joyce, and an insight into the world she inhabited.
Dreams of a Life is about a life lived in modern times. It is a film about Joyce Vincent and a film about ourselves; about how much and yet how little we may ever know each other.
The BFI London Film Festival runs 12 - 27 October.
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