Control
121 minutes,
UK (2007), 15
Photographer Anton Corbijn's film about Ian Curtis follows the Joy Division singer as he struggles with professional success, personal demons, epilepsy and prescription drugs. Adapted from Curtis's widow's book 'Touching From A Distance', Sam Riley stars
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Control: So who was that moon-faced kid from Macclesfield who pulled up his collar and stared into the void? Since his suicide by hanging in 1980, Ian Curtis has been eulogised, mythologized and sanctified as post-punk's first and only legend. In 1977, the anger and energy of rock was directed outwards. Curtis turned it in on itself...
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