CONTROL. The movie.

So last Sunday, I spent the better part of my day drooling over this movie and asking myself how suicidal tendencies can be so sexy.
I am, and have been a huge fan of Joy Division. Ian Curtis’ lyrics have always been some of my favorites. The music itself is disheveled, intense, passionate, dark and extremely passionate.
Regardless, whether or not you are a fan of Joy Division, CONTROL is a movie worth watching. It’s emotional, engaging, full of good music. Not to mention the artistry of the actual cinematography itself.
For a little background on Anton Corbjyn’s 2007 CONTROL, read below …
Otherwise, go rent it. No, go buy it. It’s worth owning.
I give it five out of five tacos.
From Wikipedia.com
Control is Anton Corbijn’s 2007 black-and-white biopic about the late Ian Curtis (1956–1980), lead singer of post-punk band Joy Division. The screenplay written by Matt Greenhalgh is based on the book Touching from a Distance, by Curtis’s widow, Deborah, who is also a co-producer of the film.
The film details the life of the troubled young musician, who forged a new kind of music out of the punk rock scene of 1970s Britain, and the band Joy Division, which he headed from 1977 to 1980. It also deals with his rocky marriage and extramarital affairs, as well as his increasingly frequent seizures, which were thought to contribute to the circumstances leading to his suicide on the eve of Joy Division’s first U.S. tour.
The title is a reference to the Joy Division song, “She’s Lost Control“—believed to be a reference to an epileptic client befriended by Curtis while employed at a Job Centre in Manchester, who later died during a seizure.[1]
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, on 17 May 2007 where it was well received by critics, especially for Sam Riley’s performance.[2] The film was winner of the Director’s Fortnight, the CICAE Art & Essai prize for best film, the Regards Jeunes Prize for best first/second directed feature film and the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the sidebar.[3] It won five awards in the British Independent Film Awards, including “Best British Independent Film”, “Best Director of a British Independent Film” for Corbijn and “Most Promising Newcomer” for Riley.[4] It also won Best Film award in the Evening Standard British Film Awards for 2007. In 2008, writer Matt Greenhalgh won BAFTA’s “Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film”.[5]