TIFF Trailer: Control

Everyday now (and all the way up until the start of the Toronto film festival), we'll be uploading a daily trailer of a film worth checking out at the fest. Today we first go with the obvious – a film that I adored at Cannes and which gets a North American preem is: Anton Corbijn's Control. While The Weinstein Company haven't yet released their domestic trailer (the film gets a September 26 release guys – time to crack this out to the public), so the trailer we've chosen is from Momentum Pictures (the U.K distributor). To access the great trailer scroll down and click the poster image, for those who want to know more they can continue reading below.  

Filmed in black and white, this is based on (the widow of Ian Curtis) Deborah Curtis' Touching From a Distance, this is a biopic of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. Matt Greenhalgh adapted the screenplay, which covers the last years in Curtis' life, leading up to his suicide on the eve of what was to have been Joy Division’s first US tour in 1980. Plot centers on Curtis' (Sam Riley) struggle between feeling enduring love for his wife (Samantha Morton) and child and his beginning a burgeoning relationship with another woman a rock journalist (Alexandra Maria Lara), as well as his bouts with epilepsy and all-consuming performances with his band. 

The film marks Anton Corbijn’s debut as a film director. The photographer had a long working relationship with the band, photographing their first ever press shots and also directing the video for their track (a posthumous) ‘Atmosphere’.