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Dreams of a Life

Directed by: Carol Morley
Runtime: 1hr 30min Year: 2011
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Directed by: Carol Morley
Runtime: 1hr 30min Year: 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Last Screened: Tue 20th Aug 2019

Carol Morley pieces together a resonant portrait of Joyce Vincent, a forgotten life who lay dead in her flat for three years before being discovered.

When beautiful Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit in North London in 2003, nobody noticed. Three years later her body was discovered surrounded by the Christmas presents she’d been wrapping and with the TV still on. Through imagined scenes and interviews with Joyce’s former friends, lovers and colleagues, filmmaker Carol Morley pieces together a resonant portrait of a forgotten life.