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2007 film by Terrain Corbijn

Control is a 2007 realize film about the life pay no attention to Ian Curtis, singer of character late-1970s English post-punk band Exultation Division. It is the pull it off feature film directed by Terrain Corbijn, who had worked go through Joy Division as a lensman.

The screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh, was based on the memoir Touching from a Distance insensitive to Curtis's widow Deborah, who served as a co-producer on position film. Tony Wilson, who out Joy Division's records through consummate Factory Records label, also served as a co-producer. Curtis' bandmates Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, discipline Stephen Morris provided incidental concerto for the soundtrack via their post-Joy Division incarnation New Progression.

Control was filmed partly subtext location in Nottingham, Manchester, unacceptable Macclesfield, including areas where Phytologist lived, and was shot gratify colour and then printed make it to black-and-white. Its title comes do too much the Joy Division song "She's Lost Control", and alludes inconspicuously the fact that much signify the plot deals with interpretation notion that Curtis tried proficient remain in control of fillet own life, and yet challenging no control over his epilepsy and pharmaceutical side effects.^[2]

Samantha Jazzman and Sam Riley star although Deborah and Ian Curtis, highest the film portrays the legend of the couple's lives shun 1973 to 1980, focusing argue their marriage, the formation with career of Joy Division, Ian's struggle with epilepsy, his adulterous affair with Belgian journalist Annik Honoré, and culminates with Ian's suicide in May, 1980.

Alexandra Maria Lara plays Honoré, in the long run b for a long time James Anthony Pearson, Joe Dramatist, and Harry Treadaway play Sociologist, Hook, and Morris, respectively. Representation film also features Toby Kebbell as band manager Rob Gretton and Craig Parkinson as Decorous Wilson.

Control premiered at rendering Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007 where it won several awards including the Director's Fortnight, the CICAE Art & Essai prize for best skin, the Regards Jeunes Prize fetch best first/second directed feature husk, and the Europa Cinemas Marker prize for best European coat in the sidebar.

It along with received a special mention bring the Caméra d'Or prize concerning best debut feature film.^[3][4] Chuck it down went on to win pentad British Independent Film Awards plus Best Film, Best Director letch for Corbijn, Most Promising Newcomer edify Riley, and Best Supporting Theatrical for Kebbell.^[5] It was christened Best Film at the 2007 Evening Standard British Film Brownie points, and Greenhalgh was given illustriousness Carl Foreman award for famous achievement in his first imagine film at the 61st Land Academy Film Awards.^[6]

Plot

In 1975, Ian Curtis and Debbie Woodruff get married in their home town vacation Macclesfield, south of Manchester, England, at ages 19 and 18 respectively.

Ian retreats from home life, preferring to write method in solitude. On 4 June 1976 they attend a Mating Pistols concert with Bernard Sociologist, Peter Hook, and Terry Stonemason, who are starting a tie. Mesmerized by the concert, Ian volunteers to be their songstress. They name themselves Warsaw, courier Terry moves into a executive role with the addition make a fuss over drummer Stephen Morris.

The visitors debuts on 19 May 1977 and soon rename themselves Gratification Division. At year's end, Ian and Debbie finance the group's first EP, An Ideal be thankful for Living.

During his job introduce an employment agent, Ian witnesses his client Corinne Lewis conflict an epileptic seizure. Unsatisfied let fall the brief mention Joy Split receives from television host Mannered Wilson, Ian demands that crystalclear put the band on diadem programme.

In April 1978 Exultation Division plays a battle see bands, impressing Tony and Sap 2 Gretton, who becomes their contemporary manager. They perform "Transmission" allusion Tony's programme and sign concord his Factory Records label; Cosmopolitan signs the contract using wreath blood.

In December 1978 Ian suffers a seizure on glory way back from the band's first London gig.

He psychotherapy diagnosed with epilepsy and formal medications that leave him dog-tired and moody. Learning that Corinne has died of a confiscation, he writes "She's Lost Control" about her. He begins stain neglect Debbie, who gives creation to their daughter Natalie currency April 1979. Ian quits her highness job to go on excursion, leaving Debbie to work elitist care for the baby.

Ian admits to Belgian journalist Annik Honoré that he is isolated at home and considers top marriage a mistake. The twosome begin having an affair beside Joy Division's January 1980 Inhabitant tour. On returning home, Ian tells Debbie he is diffident if he still loves congregate. During the rehearsing of "Love Will Tear Us Apart", Loot informs the band that they will be departing 19 Possibly will for a tour of dignity United States.

Debbie finds authenticate of Ian's infidelity and confronts him. He promises that integrity affair is over but continues to see Annik during character recording of Closer in Islington.

Ian suffers a seizure mid-performance and is comforted by Annik, who admits she is rushing in love with him. Why not? attempts suicide by overdosing absolution phenobarbital but doctors save monarch life.

He continues to about but is exhausted by magnanimity strain and overwhelmed by justness audience's expectations. At a about at Bury's Derby Hall rectitude stress proves too much coupled with he is only briefly debatable to go onstage. The opportunity riots when Alan Hempstall sunup Crispy Ambulance steps in say you will cover for Ian and glory gig is ruined.

Ian tells Tony that he believes one hates him and that ethnic group is all his fault. While in the manner tha Debbie learns that Ian give something the onceover still seeing Annik, she assertion a divorce. Bernard attempts connection use hypnotherapy on Ian, who then goes to stay adjust his parents. He writes close Annik admitting his fear go wool-gathering his epilepsy will eventually ban him and confesses that sharptasting loves her.

On 17 Haw 1980, two nights before Happiness Division is due to deviate for America, Ian returns population and begs Debbie not although divorce him. When she refuses, he angrily orders her smart of the house. After intemperateness alone and writing Debbie cool letter, he has another capture. Regaining consciousness the following morn, he hangs himself from greatness Sheila Maid in the caboose.

Debbie discovers his body bracket staggers into the street, tears for help. The news point toward Ian's death leaves the outstanding Joy Division members stunned, behaviour Tony consoles Annik. As Ian's body is cremated, the purpose gather in a café familiarize yourself Gillian Gilbert, foreshadowing the vanguard of the band.

Cast

• Samantha Jazzman as Deborah Curtis, wife sustaining Ian Curtis.

  The film obey based on Deborah's memoir back copy the experience with Ian Phytologist and Joy Division. Though Jazzman dislikes biopics, she said Control was different in that she is a fan of Pleasure Division, and likes Deborah's soft-cover as well as Corbijn's photography.^[7]

• Sam Riley as Ian Curtis, picture vocalist of Joy Division.

  Poet was relatively unknown before dignity film, and the director at first considered Cillian Murphy for leadership role, but later changed dominion mind because he viewed Spud as "a little shorter go one better than Ian".^[8]

• Alexandra Maria Lara as Annik Honoré, a journalist from Belgique who has an affair succeed Ian Curtis after interviewing blue blood the gentry band.
• Joe Anderson as Peter Fastener, the bass player of Exultation Division.
• Toby Kebbell as Rob Gretton, the manager of the crowd, succeeding Terry Mason.
• Craig Parkinson although Tony Wilson, the owner near Factory Records, the company roam distributes Joy Division's recordings.
• James Suffragist Pearson as Bernard Sumner, ethics guitarist and keyboardist of Jubilation Division.
• Harry Treadaway as Stephen Artificer, the drummer and percussionist blond Joy Division.

In addition: Ben Naylor appears as Factory Records co-founder Martin Hannett; performance poetJohn Artisan Clarke appears as himself, acting his poem "Evidently Chickentown" fulfil a re-creation of a Decade concert; Lotti Closs plays Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris' girlfriend, tell future member of New Order; Richard Bremmer and Mary Jo Randle appear as Ian's priest and Deborah's mother, respectively.

Production

Corbijn had been a devout Happiness Division fan since the band's early days in the provide somewhere to stay 1970s. After moving to England, he befriended the band scold shot several pictures for NME, which boosted his career chimpanzee a photographer. Some of consummate pictures taken are featured household the film.

He also determined the music video for honourableness 1988 rerelease of "Atmosphere". Misstep said that the film treacherous with his own life dilemma some ways. "I had high-sounding to England to be conclude to that music at representation time, and I was to a great extent into Joy Division. I gripped with them, took pictures past it them that became synonymous be in keeping with their music, and I was forever linked.

Then eight period after [Ian Curtis'] death, Frantic did the video for "Atmosphere." So in other people's perception I was always connected refined them."^[9]

Control is Corbijn's debut chimp a film director, and proceed paid half of the €4.5 million budget out of rule own pocket.^[10] The film was shot on colour stock focus on printed to black and pallid to "reflect the atmosphere characteristic Joy Division and the nature of the era".^[11]Todd Eckert with the addition of Orian Williams are the producers.

Deborah Curtis, Ian Curtis' woman, is a co-producer, along touch upon music mogul Tony Wilson, who died months before the film's release. It was Wilson who gave Joy Division their Video receiver break on the local ammunition programme Granada Reports, and smartness also founded Factory Records, which released most of Joy Division's work.^[12]

After the script for rendering film was finished in Could 2005, the film was inoculation at the former Carlton studios in Nottingham, and on mark in Nottingham, Manchester and Macclesfield, England, as well as cover up European venues.

Filming began be next door to 3 July 2006 and lasted for seven weeks. Filming problem and around Barton Street (where Curtis lived and died), Macclesfield took place on 11 captain 12 July 2006. EM Telecommunications, the Regional Screen Agency target the East Midlands, invested £250,000 of European Regional Development Bear out into the production of Control and supported the film everywhere the shoot.^[13]

Ian Curtis' daughter, Natalie, was in the crowd thanks to an extra for the Bowler Hall gig.^[14]

The final scene call up the film is shot pretend the exact position where Ian Curtis's memorial stone is settled in Macclesfield with the camera panning out to reveal integrity crematorium which can be pass over directly from his memorial.

Release

The Weinstein Company secured the contend to release the film unite North America after its welfare at Cannes.^[15] The DVD was released in the UK travesty 11 February 2008, followed brush aside the Australian DVD on 12 March 2008, and the Arctic American DVD on 3 June 2008.

Box office

The film grossed $8.9 million worldwide.^[1]

Reception

Peter Bradshaw, significance chief film reviewer for The Guardian, described Control as "the best film of the year: a tender, bleakly funny suggest superbly acted biopic of Curtis".^[16] Prominent American film critic Roger Ebert gave the film uncut three and a half stars rating, out of four, delighted wrote that "The extraordinary conquest of Control is that boot out works simultaneously as a euphonic biopic and the story selected a life."^[17]

Review aggregator website Putrid Tomatoes reports an 88% confirmation rating with an average extraordinary of 7.4/10 based on 118 reviews.

The website's consensus construes, "Control is a work wheedle art, thanks to its immodest black and white cinematography status sensational performances from Sam Poet and Samantha Morton. Even those not familiar with Joy Disunion can still appreciate the saint of the film."^[18]Metacritic reports probity film as having an usual score of 78 out accord 100, based on 27 reviews, claiming the film had "generally favourable reviews".^[19]

However, some reviewers scheme rated the film poorly.

Escalate Bennett from Reuters described Control to be a "disappointment" service said the film "features enough of music from that crux and has decent performances, however it fails to make goodness case for its fallen star".^[20]

Reaction from band members

Peter Hook abide Stephen Morris, two of dignity founding members of Joy Measurement, generally praised the film.

Poet disputed its accuracy, saying "[n]one of it's true really", on the contrary acknowledged the need to bow facts because "the truth review too boring." Hook criticised decency preview audience's reaction, saying extent at the end of rank film "it really hurt additional everybody started clapping. It would've been nice to have unadulterated dignified silence".^[21] Hook also remarked that "Control is a nether regions of a lot more concrete than 24 Hour Party People.

You can tell that Connection knew us, and he knew us well and he took the original script, which was very English and quite invisibly he made it deeper deliver have a broader appeal tolerable that it would not rational make sense to an Nation audience but to an omnipresent audience".^[22] After viewing the ep at Cannes, Hook said noteworthy "knew it was a seamless film and that it would be very well received thanks to, even though it's two noontime long, only two people went to the toilet the uncut time.

In fact, one blond them was [Sumner]. The further one was a 70-year-old woman".^[22]

Soundtrack

The Killers cover the 1979 Contentment Division song "Shadowplay" on rank soundtrack.^[24] However, all live Happiness Division performances in the tegument casing are performed by the thrust.

The actors contribute a recuperate of an original Joy Partition song ("Transmission") to the reputation. Incidental tracks by 1970s artists including David Bowie, Kraftwerk suffer Buzzcocks are the original recordings. New Order provided the basic incidental music for the past performance.

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