Little White Lies magazine

The rock doc has always had the scope to leave musicians more exposed than a regular interview, biography or adaptation of their story. Joy Division certainly delves deeper than last year’s Control, thanks to the participation of the band’s surviving members, as well as the first filmed interview with Ian Curtis’ girlfriend Annik Honoré. These interviews are interspersed with grainy concert footage and quotes from Curtis’ widow Deborah, allowing the film to examine the band and their music while building a picture of their lives, surroundings and relationships that inspired them. In an age of the celebrity publicist, it refreshingly brings you closer to the truth behind the people and events that made them, even if that feeling is probably only illusory.