We’ve been waiting for Anton Corbijn’s Control to come out for, like, aaages (well, June actually), and finally it hits cinemas on Friday.

And it’s not just the critics waxing lyrical about the movie either. According to leading epilepsy charity, the National Society for Epilepsy, the film is also helping to raise awareness of a much stigmatised condition too.

For those of you raised by wolves, Control is about the Joy Division ’singer’ Ian Curtis, who lived with epilepsy for much of his life and the film recreates some of the seizures he experienced.

Prior to filming, actor Sam Riley was apparently so determined to accurately portray what life is like with epilepsy that he visited NSE’s renowned Chalfont Centre in Buckinghamshire to learn more about the condition and during filming one of NSE’s regional managers was on hand to advise.

NSE’s Amanda Cleaver told D+CFilm: “Control is receiving a great deal of media attention which is helping  raise awareness of epilepsy - the UK’s most common serious neurological condition, yet probably one of the most misunderstood.

“The production team and the actors are to be applauded for their determination to learn more about the realism of epilepsy and epileptic seizures and for helping to bring epilepsy out of the shadows.”

True, but you can’t help thinking the attraction was more the story of an adulterous frontman stringing himself up than the whole epilepsy angle.

Still, here’s the trailer. Let’s hope there are no strobing lights, eh?!

Posted by Thin White Duke

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 pm and is filed under National, News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.