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Carol Morley’s Dreams Of A Life preview and opening tickets offer.

Zawe Ashton as Joyce Vincent

Astounding new docu-drama Dreams Of A Life, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and to be released by Dogwoof on 16 December, is a journalistic detective story by director Carol Morley. The Guardian said “nothing at the London Film Festival has lingered in my mind like this” and Time Out called it “haunting, compassionate and inventive.” We have free tickets for Nest Members, read on for info and more on the film!

Zawe Ashton as Joyce Vincent

Dreams Of A Life (UK 2011 Dir. Carol Morley 95min)

Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in Wood Green, 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. Director Carol Morley embarked on her own journey to find out about Joyce; meeting her friends, flatmates and lovers, delving into her childhood and family history, investigating her work, her dreams and her secrets. Morley found out that, like with many of us, there was more than one Joyce, loved by those who knew her keeping many parts of her life shrouded in secrecy. 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.

We have several free tickets for Nest Members to screenings plus Q&As with Carol Morley and lead actor Zawe Ashton:

The first up are from our friends with their fingers always on the pulse of programming the best films and talks in town Urban Screen !: Dreams Of A Life + Q&A with director Carol Morley and actor Zawe Ashton, Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel, 18:45 on Sat 3 December

And courtesy of Dogwoof, we also have comps to the following screenings & Q+As: Hackney Picturehouse, 18:30 Fri 9 Dec, Ritzy Cinema, 18:00 Sat 17 Dec and Curzon Soho, 16:00 Sun 18 Dec

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