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He had the spirit, but lost the feeling.
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A stark, intimate portrait of artistic brilliance consumed by mental illness and despair, told in austere black and white.
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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