FAQ

Control is based on the memoir Touching from a Distance by Deborah Curtis, widow of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the 1970s British post-punk rock band Joy Division.

The songs we hear in the concert scenes (actually performed by the cast) are: Leaders Of Men, Digital, Transmission, Insight, She's Lost Control (part recording session, part live performance), Candidate, Dead Souls and Disorder. Isolation is also performed by the cast in a recreation of a recording session with Martin Hannett. The original JD recordings used in the film are: Love Will Tear Us Apart, Atmosphere and the intro to No Love Lost. Additionally, fragments of lyrics to Exercise One, Heart and Soul and Twenty Four Hours appear in voice-over.

In order to have a real, existing person be portrayed in a medium (like a play, TV-series or, in this case, film), that person has to gives his or her permission. In other words, we can only assume that Tony Nuttall did not want to lend his name to this film.

It was a drying rack—the thing the socks and stuff were hanging on in an earlier scene when he went into the kitchen and got depressed by all the baby bottles and drying laundry.

Some people have noted similarities between Control and Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991), which details the life of The Doors' late singer, Jim Morrison [1943-1971]. Similarly, there's What We Do is Secret (2007), a film about the life of The Germs' singer Darby Crash [1958-1980].