Blow-Up

Watch: Blow-Up

12/18/19661h 51m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Sometimes, reality is the strangest fantasy of all. ~

Overview:

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Director:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$1,800,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

london, england
loss of sense of reality
photographer
burglar
photography
suspicion of murder
surreal
municipal park
pantomime
photographic evidence
murder
counter-culture
corpse
drugs
photo shoot
avant-garde
modeling
swinging london

Cast

David Hemmings

~ as ~

Thomas

Vanessa Redgrave

~ as ~

Jane

Sarah Miles

~ as ~

Patricia

John Castle

~ as ~

Bill

Veruschka von Lehndorff

~ as ~

Veruschka

Jane Birkin

~ as ~

The Blonde

Gillian Hills

~ as ~

The Brunette

Peter Bowles

~ as ~

Ron

Julian Chagrin

~ as ~

Mime

Claude Chagrin

~ as ~

Mime

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 5 month(s) ago
7
Judging by his Rolls Royce coupé that he tours London in, the young "Thomas" (David Hemmings) is a successful man. He makes his living as a photographer amongst the great and the good of the vacuous world of fame and celebrity. Drink, drugs and sex are wherever he wants them, whenever he wants them - and though fun, that's not really enough. He is in a park one evening when he espies a couple and takes some snaps. "Jane" (Vanessa redgrave) is not impressed and wants the negatives. He sees the chance to have some fun and so teases her, discovering not just that she is truly desperate to obtain them but also, on inspection of the images, that he has accidentally photographed a murder! Who did what to whom, why, and what he can get from a scenario that now has him tingling? Just what did happen and what does "Jane" have to do with anything? It's got a very vibrant, Bohemian, 1960s feel to it from start to finish and Hemmings is in his element as the rather unlikable, manipulative, playboy. Redgrave also comes across well as her character's vulnerability - though to what we don't yet know - is also well captured as the mystery deepens. The X rating is all about tits and bums. There's nothing gruesome or graphic here to terrorise the viewer, instead we get a thriller set amidst a world of hedonism and profligacy and whilst Redgrave comes across as a more reluctant visitor to this territory, Hemmings looks a natural. Yes, it's dated a little but the story itself still stands up to a watch.