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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?
Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce s life, Dreams of a Life is an imaginative, powerful, multilayered quest, and is not only a portrait of Joyce but a portrait of London in the eighties - the City, music, and race.
It is a film about urban lives, contemporary 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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Just got this today watched it in the afternoon cant get joyce carol vincent out of my mind since.
Carol morley has created an amazing legacy and tribute to someone who might have otherwise been totally forgotten.there is so much that could be said about this film,the interviews with her friends are very revealing exposing subtle attitudes about class,race and presumptions that people make about other people.
I think many people do what joyce seemed to have done and put different groups of family/friends into different compartments of their lives.perhaps her old life didnt fit in with the upwardly mobile aspirations of the yuppie '80s.
I suppose many people will contemplate the tagline on this dvd'would anyone miss you?' and having thought about it im quietly optimistic that it wouldnt happen to me but i think this has more to do with living in a small town rather than having loads of people going out of their way to keep in contact with me.having said that in the news today a man living in a town in ireland was found 6 months after dying in his terrace house.he was a lot older than joyce and sometimes by this age many of our relationships have changed for different reasons.
There are so many unanswered questions about joyces life and i suppose we will never know why her family if no one else didnt try harder to keep in touch.joyce obviously had distanced herself from most of the people in her life.she was obviously a woman with aspirations and maybe when they didnt work out the way she had hoped she fell into a decline with depression and felt she had to distance herself from friends from her old life because she was embarrassed to be living in a council house and doing cleaning jobs.
Id love to know who the presents she was wrapping were for and if they missed not getting them.in the end she was a private woman and maybe we are not entitled to know everything about her.even so i hope this isnt the last insight into her life we will have,for me personnally she has made me question my own relationships and while yes i would have people who would notice if they didnt see my physical body around for a period of time but i realised today that i spend many evenings in the company of people who im not now convinced i have much emotional connection with even though they are family and friends and i have felt quite lonely in their presence. Maybe joyce decided to stop the pretence and distanced herself from peoples judgements about her and who they expected her to be in their company,i dont know.
Im in awe of the passion of the people who bring these stories to the publics attention and make us think and feel and while joyces story has raised difficult questions for us as a society im so glad to have seen her story.
Carol morley has created an amazing legacy and tribute to someone who might have otherwise been totally forgotten.there is so much that could be said about this film,the interviews with her friends are very revealing exposing subtle attitudes about class,race and presumptions that people make about other people.
I think many people do what joyce seemed to have done and put different groups of family/friends into different compartments of their lives.perhaps her old life didnt fit in with the upwardly mobile aspirations of the yuppie '80s.
I suppose many people will contemplate the tagline on this dvd'would anyone miss you?' and having thought about it im quietly optimistic that it wouldnt happen to me but i think this has more to do with living in a small town rather than having loads of people going out of their way to keep in contact with me.having said that in the news today a man living in a town in ireland was found 6 months after dying in his terrace house.he was a lot older than joyce and sometimes by this age many of our relationships have changed for different reasons.
There are so many unanswered questions about joyces life and i suppose we will never know why her family if no one else didnt try harder to keep in touch.joyce obviously had distanced herself from most of the people in her life.she was obviously a woman with aspirations and maybe when they didnt work out the way she had hoped she fell into a decline with depression and felt she had to distance herself from friends from her old life because she was embarrassed to be living in a council house and doing cleaning jobs.
Id love to know who the presents she was wrapping were for and if they missed not getting them.in the end she was a private woman and maybe we are not entitled to know everything about her.even so i hope this isnt the last insight into her life we will have,for me personnally she has made me question my own relationships and while yes i would have people who would notice if they didnt see my physical body around for a period of time but i realised today that i spend many evenings in the company of people who im not now convinced i have much emotional connection with even though they are family and friends and i have felt quite lonely in their presence. Maybe joyce decided to stop the pretence and distanced herself from peoples judgements about her and who they expected her to be in their company,i dont know.
Im in awe of the passion of the people who bring these stories to the publics attention and make us think and feel and while joyces story has raised difficult questions for us as a society im so glad to have seen her story.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is 1st class movie making ,
it is like being on the outside of someones life and looking in ,
Who lives behind those house or flat windows ?
The story behind it is an original one ,
and the ending is stunning
it is like being on the outside of someones life and looking in ,
Who lives behind those house or flat windows ?
The story behind it is an original one ,
and the ending is stunning
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
INCREDIBLE PIECE OF WORK , SAW THIS AT THE CINEMA , WILL BUY THE DVD , IT TRULLY BEGGARS ALL BELIEVE , THAT SOME ONE COULD DIE AND NOT BE MISSED BY THEIR FRIENDS . THIS TRULY VERY SAD AND EMOTIONAL STORY OF JOYCE VINCENT WHOSE REMAINS WERE FOUND 3 YEARS UNDISCOVERED IN HER FLAT WITH THE TV APPARENTLY STILL ON ,A LOT OF QUESTIONS COME TO THE MIND HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN ?,WHY WAS SHE NOT MISSED ,? VERY BRILIANTLY AND THOUGHT PROVOCATIVELY WRITTEN AND DIRECTED ,LEAVES THE VEIWER WITH AN INSIGHT BY THE PEOPLE WHO KNEW JOYCE.VERY SAD AS IT WAS , A LOT OF THOSE QUESTIONS FIND EXPLANATION .I HOPE THE FILM RECIEVES THE ACCOLADE IT DESERVES AND IS WELL WORTH A LOOK AT. THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY /DRAMA LIFE STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL LADY ,BROUGHT TO THE VEIWER WITH A COMPASSIONATE AND HEARTFELT EXPLANATION OF A VERY SAD TRAGEDY.WELL DONE FILM ON 4 AND CAROL MORELY, ZAWE ASHTON PROTRAYS JOYCE WITH A GLIMPSE OF THE BEAUTY AND OF HER CHARACTER ACTED BRILIANTLY .THIS FILM IS STUNING.
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A withdrawal from life - the story of how someone vanished
The story of Joyce Vincent is a sad one: in 2003 she died alone in her flat at the young age of 38, where her body lay undiscovered for three years - when she was eventually... Read more
Published 2 days ago by L. Hennessy
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Published 1 month ago by Mr T
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Beautiful, thought provoking & sad. Loved every minute of it. Regional, so may not work on dvd players outside the UK.
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Bigger picture
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Published 1 month ago by A. M. Davies
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Would anyone miss you?
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Just got my pre order, missed it in the cinema and have just pre-ordered it. Everything I've heard about it so far has been amazing
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