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Control
Directed by
Anton Corbijn
R
2007
2h 1m
Drama
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Biography
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7.6
88%
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7.5
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A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to die by suicide at the age of 23.
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Cast of Control
Sam Riley
Ian Curtis
Samantha Morton
Debbie Curtis
Alexandra Maria Lara
Annik Honoré
Joe Anderson
Hooky
Toby Kebbell
Rob Greton
Craig Parkinson
Tony Wilson
James Anthony Pearson
Bernard Sumner
Harry Treadaway
Steve Morris
Robert Shelly
Twinny
Andrew Sheridan
Terry
Richard Bremmer
Ian's Father
Tanya Myers
Ian’s Mother
Martha Myers Lowe
Ian's Sister
Matthew McNulty
Nick
David Whittington
Chemistry Teacher
Margaret Jackman
Mrs. Brady
Mary Jo Randle
Debbie's Mother
Ben Naylor
Martin Hannet
John Cooper Clarke
Self
James Fortune
MC
Control Ratings & Reviews
Blender
David Fear
Control ends up being just another portrait of a self-destructive genius, albeit one as compelling and cryptic as Curtis himself.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Ian's trapped between insurrection and guilt, and so is Corbijn's film which mires itself in the artist's bourgeoisie dramas without figuring out how they influenced his music.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
[An] absorbing and ultimately harrowing look at Ian Curtis' short, unhappy life.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Sam Riley is fascinating as Curtis, a hypersensitive young man hobbled by his incurable disease, and Samantha Morton is poignant as his put-upon wife.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Control is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart.
Denver Post
John Wenzel
The film nails both the malaise and creative vigor of Curtis' short, bruised and chillingly relatable life.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Though Curtis is hopelessly dysfunctional, photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn makes us achingly aware of the singer's talent, the haunting poetry of his songs and how, living in the gloomy culture he did, his passing was virtually inevitable.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
Riley delivers a tremendous performance, not so much a mimic as a wholesale recreation of another human being.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
A film that perfectly captures the essence of the legendary and influential cult band Joy Division and its tragic lead singer, Ian Curtis.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Control" has an unmistakable pulse: a wiry, electric tension between the extraordinary spectacle of Curtis at maximum surge and the dented ordinariness of which his undear life, like ours, was mostly composed.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
A work of art disguised as a rock-star biography, it's an evocative portrait of an iconic outsider and the place that he tried to transcend.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Control suffers a bit from a touch of dry art-house-movie self-consciousness. But that's easily offset by the deeper soulfulness through which the film patiently reveals Curtis' full, almost oracular gifts and the cost of his ordinary burdens.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Director Anton Corbijn seems determined not to let the music get in the way of the human story, and his fervor goes too far.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The movie examines a life -- and a death -- without getting deep about it. The result is oddly exhilarating.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Riley gives a star-making performance as the complicated Curtis, and gets more points for convincing director Corbijn, who has shot the film in moody, monochromatic wide-screen black-and-white.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The extraordinary achievement of Control is that it works simultaneously as a musical biopic and the story of a life.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A steady and moving memorial to a man who rarely felt comfortable in his own skin.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Methodical and cool, this film is more artful sonnet than fanzine rave.
L.A. Weekly
Tim Grierson
Control honors its subject's eternal self-doubt by honing in on that truth and leaving the legend to others.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Riley makes a perfect Curtis, and Corbijn's finely shaded recreations of classic Joy Division performances are so exciting that the movie could've been nothing but fake concert footage, and it would've been every bit as moving as the filmmakers intended.
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