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