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Rating: 8 stars

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Criterion London 1960s fashion photographer murder mime rock band

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Blow-Up (1966)

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Drama | Mystery

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.

Rated NR | Length 111 minutes

Actors

David Hemmings | Vanessa Redgrave | Sarah Miles | John Castle | Veruschka von Lehndorff | Jane Birkin | Gillian Hills | Peter Bowles | Julian Chagrin | Claude Chagrin | Jimmy Page | Jeff Beck | Tsai Chin | Susan Brodrick | Peggy Moffitt | Melanie Hampshire | Roy Beck | Charlie Bird | Robin Burns | Julio Cortázar | Chris Dreja | Lew Hooper | Harry Hutchinson | Chas Lawther | Dyson Lovell | Jack Mandeville | Jim McCarty | Keith Relf | Ann Norman | Ronan O'Casey | Janet Street-Porter | Fred Wood | Tina Simmons | Jill Kennington

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Antonioni’s first English language film is fascinating mostly for capturing the London of the Swingin’ 60’s in gorgeous color.  It continues Antonioni’s theme of ennui in the modern world.

The whole sequence of David Hemmings “blowing up” his photographs to reveal what may be a murder is absolutely riveting (it must have been a big influence on THE CONVERSATION and BLOW OUT).

The other major highlight for me is the scene with The Yardbirds and Jeff Beck smashing his guitar.

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