Control is a film about Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Deborah Curtis, Factory Records, and Anton Corbijn. Good good stuff. I saw it tonight and am still a bit high, I love Joy Division, New Order, punk and post-punk, goth and much of what surrounded this music. Ian was a poet like Rimbaud or Artaud, I think, and Corbijn is a filmmaker like Antonioni, or even older directors. He was quite arresting and stylized in the beginning but then he allowed his actors, esp. Riley as Ian, to be very strong in their roles. What a great director! The perfect balance almost of art and story.
The music was well done. No complaints. The crowd at the theatre was cool, laughing when appropriate at Rob the fucked up but funny manager. Ian seems large, as does Annik and Deborah, while the rest of the band seems smaller, peripheral. Tony Wilson seemed more prominent, as perhaps he should be.
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