The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Cinematography
Corbijn's black-and-white makes Manchester look like a cathedral of despair.
Acting
Sam Riley IS Ian Curtis — twitching, distant, devastating.
Score
Actual Joy Division recordings that hit harder than any orchestral manipulation.
Director
Anton Corbijn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Control was shot in the actual Macclesfield house where Curtis lived and died — his daughter Natalie, then five, visited the set.
Corbijn had photographed Joy Division in 1979; this film was his 28-year penance for surviving the subject he immortalized.
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