Gave Away the Secrets of Her Past
I still haven't found out exactly when Control will be released in US theaters. And I also can't remember the last movie I felt this much anticipation for. I really can't. It was shown in Cannes just this past week, and I felt reassured that it will be worth seeing, based on the critic's review. I was going to see it anyway, good or bad review, regardless. What got me most excited was in the last paragraph:
"Control is also graciously short on melodrama -- there's no sense of Byronic blow-ups or long scenes of agonized depression -- just the struggles of life, and a few bad decisions with serious ramifications: get married young, have an affair, blow out the gig, hang yourself at age 23."
I'm happy this was brought up because Anton Corbijn would've been mistaken if he concentrated too much on the "melodrama" aspect, subsequently relegating Ian Curtis to nothing more than a freakshow, about as far from the truth as one can get. The only trailer I could find, as of now, was in Dutch (Corbijn's commentary).
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I agree. The makeup team did a fine of job of making Sam Riley look like the spitting image of Ian.