Carol Morley

So other people have compared it to films like Lady Bird, Booksmart, Frances Ha.

I think it's closer to kind of s- the spikier productions like, you know, Heathers or Mean Girls or, or Clueless, and for me tonally it falls somewhere between the kind of brilliant awkward teen evocations of Richard Ayoade's Submarine and that sort of sublime swooning of Carol Morley's The Falling, which I love and which is a film which is very inspired by Picnic at Hanging Rock.

And that kind of strange dreaminess is in this, although this is much more in a kind of comedic register.

I mean, this has got mystery, but it's also got that thing that the very best films have which is recognition.

To many, Joyce became nothing more than a tragic headline that faded over time.

Amidst the crowd of people jumping from one distraction to another was Carol Morley, an eccentric British filmmaker renowned for her interest in true stories that often explored themes of forgotten lives and mysterious deaths.

Carol first encountered Joyce's story in the most unassuming way, through a discarded copy of The Sun on a London Underground train.

The article's headline was jarring, "Woman dead in flat for three years.

Did you know Joyce Vincent? Days passed with no response.

It was the same silence that rang when the news of her skeleton first surfaced.

Carol Morley tried to stay determined and sought out those who had brought Joyce's story to light in the first place.

Among them was Alison Campsey, news editor for the Tottenham & Wood Green Journal.

screenwriting fellowship

screenwriting fellowship um for uh inviting um directors writers to come and choose look through the archive see what they can find and carol morley the filmmaker was one of those people

Can you tell us a bit about Carol Morley for maybe the audience members that don't know her? Just kind of contextualize her.

Yeah, she's a British film director.

She's about our age.

So she writes to you.

Why did she decide? Because, Kate, you're telling us that they can go in there and poke around and maybe something inspires it.

I'm wondering what grabbed Carol Morley's attention to then reach out to you.

Yeah, so there's a really interesting thing with Clint Mansell, which is Clint Mansell is one of the people who I had to get in touch with and say, Clint, how do you pronounce your surname? And he went, how do you think you pronounce it? And I said...

mansell he went no mansell exactly so clint mansell's work for me peaks i mean not peaks as in you know the best but he did the soundtrack to um out uh out of blue which is a carol morley film yeah right

great films i love her

and that soundtrack album is amazing and that film tanked in exactly the same way that fire walk with me did like literally was seen by nobody and now It's become, oh, the smart choice, you know, which of Carol Morley's films do you really like? I really like Out of Blue.

So once you had your, you know, your feet under the table as an executive and, you know, I don't know what title you're ahead of this.

Did you want to carry on in that line and become a director general or something?

Well, I did.

I went because my ambition knew no bounds.

Yeah.

Bill Forsyth came into the restaurant I worked in after after school.

He's the director.

Yeah, the