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Dreams Of A Life

July 2017

  • Zawe Ashton

    Zawe Ashton: ‘I’m a card-carrying existentialist’

    She was brilliantly tough as Vod in student comedy Fresh Meat. But the actor, writer, producer and director is much softer in the flesh – and riven by angst

September 2015

  • Carol Morley

    7 Miles Out review – heartache and humour

    The film-maker Carol Morley proves a master at articulating difficult experiences in this autobiographical novel about a father’s suicide

March 2015

  • Zawe Ashton in Dreams of a Life

    Film blog
    The film that makes me cry: Dreams of a Life

    This documentary about a mysterious woman who had been dead in her bedsit for three years before she was found is heartbreaking – and a salutary reminder to keep our loved ones close

January 2015

  • Blue is the Warmest Colour

    Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade

    We are now midway through the 2010s. So what trends are emerging in cinema? Peter Bradshaw takes a look – and picks his top 50 films of the demi-decade

October 2014

  • The Falling film still

    First look review
    The Falling review – Carol Morley's masterly followup to Dreams of a Life

    Peter Bradshaw: Director Carol Morley has come up with another brilliant and very distinctive feature, about an epidemic of fainting that grips a girls school in the 1960s

December 2011

  • Dreams of a Life

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly podcast: Carol Morley and Zawe Ashton discuss Dreams of a Life - audio

    Film-maker Carol Morley and actor Zawe Ashton discuss why the lonely death of a London woman inspired them to try and reveal the truth about her life

November 2011

  • Dreams of a Life: world exclusive trailer - video

    Carol Morley's extraordinary drama-documentary tells the story of Joyce Vincent, a young woman whose skeleton was discovered in a flat three years after she had died. The film premiered at the BFI London film festival and opens in the UK on 16 December

October 2011

  • Dreams of a Life

    Film blog
    Ode to the lonely: Dreams of a Life at the London film festival

    Peter Bradshaw: Carol Morley's bold drama-documentary about a young woman whose dead body lay undiscovered in a north London flat for three years is difficult to watch but unforgettable
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