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They do not sensationalize or romanticize. The shots with which Corbijn leads up to and out of Ian's suicide are meticulously modulated. The emotional monitor is always Deborah, patient, loyal, worried Morton, who is 30, is absolutely convincing as a plucky teenage bride.

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And since his early death is so well-known, the movie consists of a progression, not a progress. There's no rags-to-riches cliche-mongering, because for Ian, even the riches were sackcloth. The extraordinary achievement of 'Control' is that it works simultaneously as a musical biopic and the story of a life. He grows agitated, blanks out, regains consciousness, is confused and depressed. Unlike epilepsy as experienced by, say, Unlike epilepsy as experienced by, say, Prince Myshkin in DoystoyevskiвЂ™s 'The Idiot,' Ian's does not seem to involve a transition through an ecstatic state. It seems to have come upon him around 20, and sometimes during a stage performance, we see him moving spasmodically and wonder if performing triggers episodes. Ian Curtis suffered from epilepsy, a condition which I'm not sure he fully understood. We meet key players in the pivotal Manchester music scene of the period, including the entrepreneur Tony Wilson ( Craig Parkinson), immortalized in Michael Winterbottom's ' 24 Hour Party People,' a film about the same time and place. His stage style with a microphone resembles a shy, introverted Johnny Rotten. For him, I suspect, love meant not so much what he felt for a woman as what she felt for him.Д®arly in the film, Ian and Deborah attend a Sex Pistols concert, and Ian has his ideas altered about what a band is and what music is. Ian had an affair with Annik Honore ( Alexandra Maria Lara), a Belgian, and the movie deals with that straight on, not painting her as a homewrecker but as another of the enablers Ian used. She was younger but more balanced and competent. Ian's marriage is, of course, a focus of the film, since his wife was not only its source and co-writer but co-producer.

His bandmates sometimes look at him with that inward expression people get when they wonder if they have enough gas to get to the next gas station. There is a lot of performance footage, but Riley sees Ian not so much performing as functioning. He is played by Sam Riley, who makes him seem always alone. It is in black and white and gray, of course, and we sense Ian was a man who dreamed in shadows, not colors. The movie is quietly, superbly photographed and acted. Listen to the two albums the band made, and you hear his lead vocals as relentless complaints against -what? The melancholy that prevents him from feeling the emotions expressed by his words?

There is irony in the band name Joy Division, because Ian seems to experience little joy and much inner division, as an almost passive participant in his own career. The title of Deborah's book, Touching From a Distance, could describe all his relationships. It is based on a memoir by his wife Deborah (played by Samantha Morton), a teenager when they married, and directed by the photographer Anton Corbijn, whose early photos helped establish Curtis' image as young, handsome and sorrowful. 'Control,' one of the most perceptive of rock music biopics, has been made by two people who knew him very well.

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