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 stiIl on. Newspaper reports offered few detaiIs of her life - not even a photograph.
Who was she? And how couId this happen to someone in our day and age- the so-caIIed age of communication?
lnterweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce s life, Dreams of a Life is an imaginative, powerful, muItiIayered 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 fiIm about urban lives, contemporary life, and how, like Joyce, we are aIl different things to different people. It is about how IittIe we may ever know each other, but nevertheIess, how much we can love. |