[Diesel]

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find another thread about this movie.

I watched "Control" - about the life and death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis - on the plane to Joburg earlier in the week.

Anyone else seen it?

Opinions?

Well acted and sometimes moving, but a film that can make *Schindler's List, Eraserhead and PI appear cheerful and uplifting in comparison has some serious problems.

There's some dark humour - mostly added by Tony Kebbell who played their cocky and foul-mouth manager Rob Gretton - but mostly it's doom & gloom.

Ironic that Curtis should name his band Joy Division when there seems to have been very little, if any, joy in his own life.

*I mention these three movies as they were also shot in B&W and were hard work!