It may not sound like the most Christmasy of tales, but there's something so profoundly moving about Dreams Of A Life that we had to share a clip from the docudrama/drama-documentary with you this frosty e'en.
Carol Morley's film played to rapt audiences at the London Film Festival earlier in the year and it's continuing to build buzz. It tells the story of Joyce Vincent, a vivacious wannabe singer who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Tragic but not unusual, you might think, except for the fact that no-one noticed. For three years.
Morley's film seeks the get to the bottom of the story, mixing reconstructions of Vincent's life and talking-head interviews with her nearest and dearest. Well, *relatively *nearest and dearest.
Popping up in this clip are her ex-boyfriend Martin Lister and Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, who also tried to get to the bottom of the story only to be rebuffed by everyone from the police to the utilities companies who continued to supply Joyce's flat during that time.
Playing Vincent is Zawe Ashton, aka the awesomely foul-mouthed Vod in Fresh Meat. Catch her heralded performance when Dreams Of A Life comes out on December 16.