Though based on
Touching from a Distance, Deborah Curtiss revealing, mystique-busting account of her miserable marriage to Ian Curtis, lead singer of the short-lived but enormously influential Manchester band Joy Division, photographer and video director Anton Corbijn’s beautifully austere biopic is something of a whitewash. While vividly re-creating a very specific time and place the economically and spiritually depressed industrial English north of the late 1970s Corbijn and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh have fashioned an Ian Curtis most can agree on and nearly everyone can like. No longer the selfish, controlling and often cruelly indifferent y...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
121 mins