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Blowup (also styled Blow-Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery [3] film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond [4] and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles.
Nov 8, 1998 · Blow-Up. Crime. 111 minutes ‧ 1966. Roger Ebert. November 8, 1998. 6 min read. A grainy encounter between David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in the park. Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence.
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. Then he meets a mysterious beauty, and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park.
Although released in 1966, BLOWUP is remarkably pertinent today, nearly 40 years later. Its theme of reality/illusion, with people seeing or not seeing what they want not to see, is still pertinent in this era of "missing" weapons of mass destruction.
Thomas (David Hemmings) is a London photographer who spends his time photographing fashion models. But one day he thinks he may have photographed something far more...
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- David Hemmings
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Crime, Drama
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles.Blow Up Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/4bNksgbBlow Up Blu-ray (Cr...
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1. The Ambiguous Ending: The ending of Blow-Up is deliberately ambiguous, leaving audiences with more questions than answers. As Thomas returns to the park where he took the incriminating photographs, he finds no evidence of the murder he witnessed.