Dreams of a Life
Dreams of a Life sees Carol Morley return to the director's chair as she mixes documentary with drama for her new project.
Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003.
Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.
Who was she? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age- the so-called age of communication? For her film Dreams of a Life, filmmaker Carol Morley set out to find out.
Joyce may have died in tragic isolation, but Morley was not going to let her be forgotten. She placed adverts in newspapers, on the Internet, and on the side of a London taxi. What she finds out is extraordinary.
A range of people that once knew Joyce help to piece together a portrait of the woman that became so forgotten. 'She was very sweet, beautiful looking, a bit of a mystery. We weren’t too sure where she came from. It’s almost like she was a ghost, even then.'
Zawe Ashton takes on the role of Joyce as director Morley attempts to give her back her voice.
Dreams of a Life is released 16th December
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