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Synopsis: A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.
Director(s): Carol Morley
Production: Strand Releasing
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
95 min
$6,595
Website
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the terribly sad thing, really.

That, you know,

no one had reported her missing.

Worst of all, her family

hadn't reported her missing.

Four sisters!

Four sisters!

I don't know why

I'm always stuck on that significance

of three years

and nobody's come looking for you.

But it is that. I reckon

that says a lot for the beginning.

Some of the details

that oated around early on

were mysterious.

'"Ms Vincent's local MP

and members of her family said

"they want a full investigation

into how she died."'

The trouble with this is

that there was no...

You can't establish the cause of death

without a body.

I think somebody killed her.

It's a body melting into the carpet,

basically.

That's... That's just... It's grim.

There's nothing there for us now,

just a fair old mark on the carpet.

Oh, my God.

I think she was murdered, you know.

It's too clean cut.

If it's wet and if it's not yours,

you can't take any risks.

'The police said

there was nothing suspicious,

'but unless you knew what happened,

you will always think

'there's a possibility

of some kind of foul play in there.'

'It does seem strange,

everything about it.

'She was in that at.

Nobody kind of questioned it.

'An inquest last week

returned an open verdict

'but heard that a police investigation had

ruled out any suspicious circumstances.'

'It's one of those inquests

where it's difficult to find answers,

'which is immediately frustrating.

'You have this mystery that's thrown up

and you just want to know more.'

With all this DNA stuff,

testing and what have you,

I'm sure they can find some way

of finding out what really happened.

I think there's more to it

than meets the eye.

You'd probably never find out

the true story of it.

It'd be another JFK all the way.

'I was working late one evening.'

I was friendly with her

and she came round and said,

"Do you want to go out for a drink?"

And I said, "Yeah, all right, then."

Didn't really read anything into it.

She seemed very fond of him

but they were a very unlikely pairing.

Very unlikely.

I had no idea

she was attracted to me at all.

And...

And then I actually developed,

you know, a love for her.

'And one day I said,

'Would you like to go to this hunt ball?"

'She seemed a bit hesitant at first

and I thought, 'Well, that's strange.

"'I thought she was attracted to me."

'I think it was something to do

with leaving the confines of London

'where she was quite happy.'

I think Martin rolled in in his car

that he'd completely written off

on the way down.

It was just...

He had a little cut on his head.

And she turned up

later than everybody else

wearing this dress,

this sort of powder-blue rubber dress.

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Carol Morley

Carol Anne Morley (born 14 January 1966) is an English film director, screenwriter and producer. She is best known for her semi-documentary Dreams of a Life, released in 2011, about Joyce Carol Vincent, who died in her North London bedsit in 2003, but was not discovered until 2006.Her older brother is the music journalist, critic and producer Paul Morley. more…

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