Dreams of a Life Page #5

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
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and everything about her

was just immaculate.

'Obviously she used to get

a lot of male attention.

'Because she was a lovely person.

She was a bubbly person.

'She was a very well liked person.'

I've got a really kind of special memory

of her at the Christmas party,

'She wore this most beautiful dress.'

'She was always well turned out.

She always turned quite a few heads.'

She did, yeah.

- Certainly at that party.

'Joyce being Joyce,

she'd had a couple of drinks.

'She was determined

she was going to have a go at this thing,

'whether she had

a 400 dress on or not.

And she tried to grab the sides.

And as she did that,

a kind of cleavage of b*obs

popped out of her dress

and she was trying to hold on

to the side of this thing.

'She stood there for five or ten minutes

just laughing her head off.

'If I was wearing a dress like that,

I wouldn't go on one of them bungees.'

Everything revolved round

whoever she went out with

or whatever job she did.

'No lifetime friends

as far as I could see.'

'The thing that always stuck

in my mind was this bond

that her and Martin used to have.

He seemed to be her rock.

Whatever happened in her life,

'she always seemed

to come back to him.

'But I wonder what she did

when she wasn't seeing Martin.

'I know they didn't live together.'

Maybe Martin was her closest friend

and anyone Martin knew automatically

became her circle of friends.

'It was Martin who said,

"Oh, it's Joyce's 21st."

'And I said, "Oh, right. Great!"

'I actually remember

her 21st party

'in the place we can never remember

above The Beetroot.'

'I think it was called Moonlighting

in Dean Street.'

'It was a good evening.

'It was just that incident

of the police stripogram.'

'This guy turns up

and he was dressed as a vicar.

'Everyone was quite sober, really sober.

I think it was relatively early.

It didn't seem like it was a late night.

And everyone was just,

"Oh, my God. What is this guy doing?"

# Everybody needs cash to spend

# Everybody needs love and affection #

'It was just completely wrong

for him to be there.'

If you were drunk,

I'd imagine it would be hilarious,

but it just wasn't.

Anyway, he started ripping off...

He had Velcro on the back of his shirt

and he ripped off his top.

He had this really skinny, white body

with ginger hair. It was just awful.

Not that if he was a good-looking bloke,

it would have made any difference.

It was just like, "No, please stop.

Keep your clothes on. Don't do this."'

'Everybody was just

really embarrassed.'

# Go round the world again and again

# Meet a girl on a boat,

meet a boy on the train #

Then he had a bit of a fit

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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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