Dreams of Life

A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph. Joyce Vincent.
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Morley was also in contact with Joyce's four sisters, all of whom refused to be in the film.

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Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit View history. Here I feel it from both sides. But, if isolation is a ubiquitous human fear, her death is that agony distilled to its purest form.

Many people in cities feel a paradoxical loneliness — it is a chilling idea that someone could fade away to skeletal remains mere feet away from dozens of living, chatting, laughing humans. But when I watch Dreams of a Life I feel, even more strongly, that other pernicious tug: The curiosity of the film is that while Vincent is the subject, she is not its heart.

Even brought to vibrant life by actor Zawe Ashton, she remains ultimately mysterious, elusive.


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We hear nothing from her family they would speak to Morley only off-camera nor from one late-period boyfriend. He has many happy memories of their relationship, not least the obvious, still lingering surprise that such a beauty should have chosen him. But, as he considers her end, he finally breaks down: That is the heartbreaking truth at the centre of the film: If you have not watched the film and are thinking: Like those in her life, you feel drawn to Vincent, not least because of the mystery at her centre.


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And her story carries a paradoxical corollary to its grim message: In , rather than , when Vincent shut her bedsit door for the last time, this is somewhat easier. Would I notice if someone went absent for six months, a year, three years?

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