UK – Year: 2011 – Running time: 94 mins
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In 2007 Joyce Vincent’s skeletonised remains were discovered in a London flat. She had been dead for 3 years and no one had missed her. An unseen interviewer reveals reminiscences and reflections about her life from past friends and colleagues. These show by just how fragile a thread her life had woven into theirs. In parallel to these commentaries, Zawe Ashton re-enacts some of the known facts of her life over the years before her death.
Director: Carol Morley
The Alcohol Years (2000)
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