Control (2007)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Control
Original title Control
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Anton Corbijn
script Matt Greenhalgh
production Tony Wilson , Deborah Curtis, Todd Eckert, Orian Williams, Iain Canning , Peter Heslop
music New Order , Joy Division
camera Martin calm
cut Andrew Hulme
occupation

Control is a biographical film aboutIan Curtis(1956–1980), the singer of the Englishpost-punkband Joy Division . It is based on the book Touching from a Distance by Curtis' widow Deborah and is the debut feature film of the Dutchartist Anton Corbijn,who previously appeared primarily as a music photographer with his own visual language.

action

The film sketches the life of the young, charismatic but internally torn musician Ian Curtis , the head of Joy Division , an important English band that helped shape the transition from punk rock to post-punk in Great Britain in the late 1970s / early 1980s on his death by suicide on the eve of his first American tour.

concept

The script is based in part on the book Touching From a Distance by Curtis' widow Deborah, who is also the film's co-producer. The film is not a film adaptation of the book, because for the drafting of the script, additional discussions were held with those involved at the time, including Annik Honoré . She was Curtis' lover at the time and had never commented on what had happened before.

The film Control is the film debut of star photographer Anton Corbijn , who previously shot style-defining videos for Depeche Mode , Nirvana , U2 and Herbert Grönemeyer , who can be seen in a scene as a doctor, among others. The largely unknown Sam Riley takes on the role of Ian Curtis . Two-time Oscar- nominated actress Samantha Morton plays Deborah Curtis , and Annik Honoré is portrayed by Alexandra Maria Lara .

Corbijn that the for his first feature film Vita chose the tragic singer, is not entirely random. Joy Division 's first record release prompted the then young photographer to seek contact with the group for his part and ultimately to go where, in his opinion, “the music” took place.

The film opened the 39th edition of Director's Fortnight , an independent section of the Cannes Film Festival organized by the Society of French Directors , on May 17, 2007 , and received consistently positive reviews. Anton Corbijn presented his film as part of the Cologne Conference on September 28, 2007 as a German festival premiere in Cologne; On January 10th, 2008 the film started dubbed and as a subtitles with 46 copies well in German cinemas and landed at number 14 of the most watched films with 25,000 viewers on the first weekend.

Awards

  • Best European Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival
  • Caméra d'Or - Mention spéciale of the Cannes Film Festival
  • Award for Best New British Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
  • Award to Sam Riley for Best Performance in a British Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
  • TV feature film award of the international television and film festival Cologne Conference in Cologne
  • Hamburg Film Critics' Prize at the Hamburg Film Festival
  • Carl Foreman Award for Matt Greenhalgh (screenplay) at the British Independent Film Awards , nomination for the film and Samantha Morton

Quote

"This picture about Joy Division's Ian Curtis is one of the most beautiful movies ever made about rock 'n' roll."

- This film about Ian Curtis from Joy Division is one of the most beautiful films ever made about rock'n roll. : Stephanie Zacharek on salon.com

Soundtrack

The soundtrack, which was released on 1 October 2007, contains, among other things, three new songs by New Order , a cover of transmission , played by the actors themselves, and a cover of the band The Killers of Shadow Play .

Full tracklist (published on CD):

  1. "Exit" - New Order
  2. "What Goes On" - The Velvet Underground
  3. "Shadowplay" - The Killers
  4. "Boredom (Live)" - Buzzcocks
  5. "Dead Souls" - Joy Division
  6. "She Was Naked" - Supersister
  7. "Sister Midnight" - Iggy Pop
  8. " Love Will Tear Us Apart " - Joy Division
  9. "Problems (Live)" - Sex Pistols
  10. "Hypnosis" - New Order
  11. "Drive In Saturday" - David Bowie
  12. "Evidently Chickentown" - John Cooper Clarke
  13. "2H.B." - Roxy Music
  14. "Transmission" - Control Actor ( cast version )
  15. "Autobahn" power plant
  16. "Atmosphere" - Joy Division
  17. "Warszawa" - David Bowie
  18. "Get Out" - New Order

in the film (in the order of presentation):

  1. "Drive-in Saturday" - David Bowie
  2. "2H.B." - Roxy Music
  3. "The Jean Genie" - David Bowie
  4. "Sister Midnight" - Iggy Pop
  5. "Problems" (live) - Sex Pistols
  6. "No Love Lost" - Joy Division
  7. "Evidently Chicken Town" - John Cooper Clarke
  8. "Leaders Of Men" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  9. "Boredom" - The Buzzcocks
  10. "Digital" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  11. "Transmission" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  12. "Insight" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  13. "She's Lost Control" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  14. "Candidate" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  15. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
  16. "Isolation" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  17. "Dead Souls" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  18. "What Goes On" - Velvet Underground
  19. "Disorder" - "Joy Moviesion" *
  20. "Atmosphere" - Joy Division
  21. "Shadowplay" - The Killers
  • " Joy Moviesion " are the actors.

Trivia

When Ian Curtis sitting alone at the end of the film in his apartment, he watched on television the film Stroszek of Werner Herzog from 1976 to. Curtis was a big fan of the German director Herzog.

literature

  • Anton Corbijn: Closer to Control: The Ian Curtis Movie . Schirmer / Mosel Verlag , 2007, hardback, 144 pages, German and English.
  • Deborah Curtis: From afar. Ian Curtis and Joy Division . Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin 1996, paperback, 214 pages (German translation of Touching From A Distance - Ian Curtis & Joy Division . Faber & Faber, London 1995).

Reviews

  • Ulrike Schröder wrote in TV Digital # 1 on December 28, 2007 that the film is a melancholy homage to a tragic genius, of which every picture - kept in elegant black and white - could be a poster.

Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Northern lights - How to make a film about the short and tragic life of Ian Curtis? The Guardian .
  2. ↑ Box Office - Class clown as a box office star, Spiegel Online .
  3. ↑ Control | on salon.com, October 10, 2007.
  4. ↑ Audio commentary by music manager Tony Wilson , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD of the feature film 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig