Uncut, 06/01/2008, p.119, 4 stars out of 5 -- "JOY DIVISION is a resounding, absorbing success....[The] film reminds us how urgent, alive and abrasive that music remains, the vital alternatives it still offers."
Empire, 06/01/2008, 52, 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t hinges around vintage footage and entertaining anecdotes within a slick, visually inventive format."
Sight and Sound, 05/01/2008, p.70-71, "Director Grant Gee finds a style that reboots the hallucinatory modernism in Factory studio production and the underground music video of the early 1980s..."
Total Film, 06/01/2008, p.50, 4 stars out of 5 -- "Gee's arty manipulation of rock-doc staples has a vitality worthy of the music, making decayed bootleg footage luminous..."
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English Subtitles - English, Spanish Additional Release Materials: Extended Interviews Deleted Scenes
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English Subtitles - English, Spanish Additional Release Material: Deleted Scenes Extended Interviews
Product Notes
Fans of the gloomy Manchester-based band from the late 1970s will have less to feel down about with the release of this rockumentary. JOY DIVISION follows the unlikely rise of these working class lads up to Ian Curtis's suicide, which tore the band apart until it was reborn as New Order. Included here is rare footage of the group as well as their moody and starkly photographed videos, capturing the essence of what made Joy Division so special and so tragic.
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