Rooted in a story that is not only unnerving, but also desperately sad, Dreams of a Life, a documentary six years in the making, seeks to discover the truth as to how one woman, Joyce Carol Vincent (played beautifully by British actress Zawe Ashton), managed to fall through the cracks and lie dead in her lonely London bedsit for three years before being found by council workers looking to repossess her property.
Constructed through an assortment of news clippings and interviews with ex-colleagues, associates and lovers – notice the mysterious absence of Continue reading “Review: Dreams Of A Life (2011)”
Empty Screens 