Nobody noticed when thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a small shopping mall in North London in 2003. When her skeleton was discovered three years later, her heating and television were still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of Joyce’s life – not even a photograph. Dreams of a Life is filmmaker Carol Morley’s quest to discover who Joyce was and how she came to be forgotten.
Morley placed 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 reimagined scenes from Joyce’s life (featuring a touching portrayal from rising star Zawe Ashton), 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.
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