DREAMS OF A LIFE plus Director Q&A at The Gate
The Gate welcomes director Carol Morley for a Q&A hosted by director Kevin Macdonald
Monday 19 December, 6.30
Nobody noticed when 38-year-old Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in north London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years; it was surrounded by the Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and the TV was still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her 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?
Mixing interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce’s life, DREAMS OF A LIFE is a powerful, multilayered quest. And it goes beyond attempting to paint a portrait of Joyce to reveal a view of London in the '80s - the city, its music and its race relations. It is a film about contemporary urban life and how, like Joyce, we are all different things to different people; it is about how little we may ever know each other, but nevertheless, how much we can love.
"Haunting, compassionate and inventive" 4 Stars Time Out
"This is a sad and intriguing story, told with imagination and care." – Sandra Hebron, London Film Festival
"Nothing at the London Film Festival has lingered in my mind like this" – The Guardian
