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A lot of great films came out last year, 2007–No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, The Lives of Others, and so on–but I honestly can’t think of a better one than this: “Control.”
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This is a gorgeous and skillfully done film–all awash in silvery starkness, in luminous black and white–and all feeling so genuine and so far from anything fake or phony. I am not the suicidal singer of a New Wave band, I am not in love with a French journalist, and I do not think I married too early, but watching this, the movie really put me inside the man’s skin.
“Control” tells the story of Ian Curtis, Joy Division’s ill-fated lead singer–as well as his unfortunate wife, his band, his manager, his label, and his lover–and it does so without resorting to making it a slick biopic or a phony depiction of celebrity. It is one of the realest feeling films I have ever seen, and yet it doesn’t sacrifice anything compelling or filmic to be so. The story plows ahead with amazing music and a formidable drive, with scenes that are artfully shot and gorgeous to behold.
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The film’s final scenes are indelible, cut forever into my mind, and the feeling the film invokes is powerful. I have never felt more genuinely punk than after seeing this–leaving the theater, I wanted to rip benches out of the ground and attack speeding cars head-on. More than that, I wanted to walk back into the theater, get another ticket, and watch it again. (I’m not really that into Joy Division either–at least I wasn’t before seeing this.)
“Control”: Best Movie of 2007. And Best Music Movie in Decades. So well-made and flawlessly executed that it couldn’t ultimately depress me–it could only excite me. It’s amazing.
Based on Deborah Curtis’s book, Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division, Anton Corbijn’s fascinating and informative black-and-white film, Control (2007), chronicles the short, unhappy life of Ian Curtis (1956-1980), from his pursuit of art and literature at age 17 (while obsessed with David Bowie), to attending a Sex Pistols’ show in 1976 (where he met Joy Division bandmates, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Terry Mason), to his contributions as lead singer and lyricist for that brilliant post-punk band (which he joined the same year), to his May 18, 1980 suicide at age 23. Corbijn, who is perhaps best known for directing videos of Depeche Mode, U2, and The Killers, cast an unknown actor, Sam Riley, to play Curtis, and Samantha Morton to play the part of of his wife, Deborah Curtis. Curtis married Deborah in 1975, while they were just teenagers. They soon had a daughter, Natalie, in 1979, while Curtis was also working as a civil servant at a Job Centre in in Manchester and performing with the Joy Division at night. In his spot-on portrayal of Curtis, Riley not only resembles Curtis in his appearance, but in his portrayal of Curtis’s quiet, awkward demeanor. For the role, Riley masters Curtis’s unique dancing style while performing (reminiscent of the epileptic seizures Curtis was known to experience, sometimes even while on stage). Beautiful Alexandra Maria Lara plays Curtis’s extramarital lover, Belgian journalist Annik Honoré, the possible inspiration for the Joy Division hit single, “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Corbijn’s film conveys all the existential angst, emotional isolation, alienation, and urban degeneration of his subject’s short life. The film’s dark, final scenes depicting Curtis drinking (on the eve of his first U.S. tour), while watching Werner Herzog’s 1977 film, Stroszek, and listening to Iggy Pop’s The Idiot, all the while contemplating hanging himself are profoundly haunting. Although this film will appeal to anyone with an interest in Joy Division, it deserves a much wider audience for its mesmerizing character study of a troubled young post-punk artist.
G. Merritt
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