Control (The Miriam Collection)
by Anton Corbijn
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Actor: Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson (VI), Sam Riley (II), Samantha Morton, Toby KebbellDirector: Anton Corbijn
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Control (The Miriam Collection)
Movie Review: the life and death of yet another British rocker
Summary: 4 Stars
Joy Division is a British working class rock band of the late 70's
that have a very intense sound which is mostly based on the
very personal lyric poetry of Ian Curtis.
The film is a black and white biography based on his wife's book.
Success means that he attracts more attention and
a new groupie who begins to spoil his love based marriage
while his epileptic fits get worse and less controlled.
The pressures of his world seem to have been too much for this young poet.
The movie has a very real honest feel to it
that harks back to a better era of 50's British cinema.
Summary of Control (The Miriam Collection)
Control tells the remarkable story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the influential band Joy Division and one of the most enigmatic figures in all of rock music. Based on his wife's memoir, Control follows Curtis' humble Manchester origins and his rapid rise to fame, tormented battle with epilepsy, and struggles with love that led to his death at the age of 23.In his elegiac debut, Anton Corbijn combines the music film with the social drama to stunning success. Based on Deborah Curtis's clear-eyed biography, Touching from a Distance, Control recounts the wrenching tale of a working-class lad about to hit the highest highs only to be waylaid by the lowest lows. Born and raised in Macclesfield, a suburban community outside Manchester, Ian Curtis (newcomer Sam Riley in a remarkable performance) dreams of fronting a band. Just out of high school in the mid-1970s, he finds three like minds with whom he forms post-punk quartet Warsaw--better known as Joy Division (Riley and castmates ably recreate their somber sound). All the while, he falls in love, marries, and fathers a child with Deborah (Samantha Morton, turning a thankless role into a triumph). While Curtis should be enjoying parenthood and newfound fame, he's plagued by seizures. A diagnosis of epilepsy leads to powerful medications with unpredictable side effects. Then, while on tour, he falls in love with another woman. His solution to these problems is a matter of public record, but Corbijn concentrates on Curtis's life rather than his death. Just as Control establishes a link between such disparate black and white works as fellow photographer Bruce Weber's Let's Get Lost and kitchen-sink classics like The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, the Dutch-born, UK-based director presents his subject not as some iconic T-shirt image, but as a deeply flawed--if massively talented--human being. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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