This film by photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn, presents the life of Ian Curtis of the post-punk band Joy Division as a biopic. Corbijn’s film may be about the domestic life of Curtis as much as the public, yet he keeps a distance from the grit of the story. To his credit, this means that no wild biographical ideas plague his film, but there’s also a gap between the film and the filmed that’s a little unsatisfying. Maybe it’s the most honest approach – who, really, ever knows why someone kills themselves? There are suggestions here, but nothing so crude as a definitive answer.

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