I first spotted the trailer for Carol Morley ‘s critically-acclaimed docu-drama, Dreams of a Life, on Shadow and Act last year and it’s been on my list of must-see films ever since.
While the movie is currently only being released on DVD/VOD for UK audiences at the moment, I’m keeping my eye out for when it’s available for viewing/purchasing here in the U.S. My hope is that a release here will be soon, as Dreams of a Life made its American debut at SXSW last week.
Staring beautiful English actress Zawe Ashton , Dreams of a Life seeks to explore the life and horrifying death of 38-year-old Joyce Vincent , a Londoner of Caribbean descent who died in her apartment in 2003. She would be undiscovered for 3 years. Read the full synopsis below:
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.” Dreams of a Life becomes as much about the people who remember her as it is about Joyce herself.
Read more about Joyce ‘s interesting life from the film’s director here .
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