Lost again
I hoped Anton Corbijn’s take on the Joy Division story would be this good.
And it was.
The stark, monochromatic scenes, and Sam (”at least you’re not the singer from the Fall”) Riley, pushed you into Ian Curtis’s world - it was pretty overwhelming, to be honest.
I loved it as well. Shot so beautifully.
Sean
29 Oct 07 at 2:34 pm
S’odd. It makes decaying 70s urban life look so incredibly… stylish. Curtis/Riley dominate the film. I’d have liked a bit more of the other characters - who they are/were but it’s solidly (narcissistically) about Curtis.
Matt Moore
29 Oct 07 at 5:12 pm
Yeah I guess I wonder how much it (over-) romanticises Curtis’s life too, but I also like the way it gets into his personality - he comes across as pretty reserved, but hardly a tortured soul: into glam rock, studiously working at the employment agency. I think Emmy’s review gets a bit hung up on the Thatcher/rest of the band bit; Corbijn picked an angle - Curtis’s personal story - and dug in. And it makes for a much more accessible story for having done that. New Order were very involved in the making of the film, so they can’t be too upset with their rendering, and it’s undoubtedly cemented Joy Division’s position in the Official Canon of Important Artists.
matt
30 Oct 07 at 5:24 am