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Joy Division is a British film of genre Documentary directed by Grant Gee with Anton Corbijn

Joy Division (2009)

Joy Division
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Joy Division is a 2007 British documentary film on the British post-punk band Joy Division, directed by Grant Gee.

The film assembles TV clips, newsreel, pictures of modern Manchester and Manchester in the late 1970s, and interviews. The interviewees include the three surviving members of the group, Tony Wilson, Peter Saville, Pete Shelley (of Buzzcocks), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle), Alan Hempsall (of Crispy Ambulance), Paul Morley, Terry Mason, Richard Boon, Anton Corbijn, and Belgian journalist Annik Honoré, with whom Ian Curtis was having an affair.

Film critic Philip French: "Someone says in the film that the revolutionary step they made was to progress from the usual punk group's angry statement: 'Fuck you.' Joy Division were the first to say: 'We're fucked.' There is a particularly impressive sequence in which dark, despairing tracks of urban alienation and angst from the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures are accompanied by a speeded-up nocturnal journey around Manchester. It has the hallucinatory sci-fi feeling of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville." The person being quoted was Tony Wilson.

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En 1976, quatre jeunes hommes issus de la post-industrielle Manchester se rendent à un concert des Sex Pistols. Fortement inspirés par ce show auquel ils ont assisté, ils décident de monter un groupe, Joy Division. Près de 30 ans plus tard, malgré une tragédie qui les a arrêtés dans leur élan, Joy Division connaît un succès et une influence plus grande que jamais. Leur héritage résonne tout particulièrement dans une industrie musicale actuelle carriériste et une culture pop surmédiatisée. Grâce à des interviews des membres survivants du groupe, aujourd'hui réunis sous le nom de New Order, et à des archives inédites, Joy Division se fait la chronique d'un changement social et politique en Angleterre et nous entraîne dans l'histoire de ces quatre hommes, qui ont transcendé les barrières économiques et culturelles pour produire une musique atemporelle.

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