Title: Blow-Up
Original Title: Blowup
Year: 1966
Info
- Country: UK Italy
- Length: 111 Minutes (1 hour 51 min)
- Budget: $1,800,000
- Genre: Drama Thriller Mystery
- Studios: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Distributor: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: March 16 1967
- United States: December 18 1966
Plot
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. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
The film is written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, it was the winner of the Palme d'Or of the prestigious Cannes festival in 1967 and nominated for two Academy Awards. The cast is completed by Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle and Jane Birkin.
Awards
- 1967 Academy Awards (Oscars): 2 0
- 1968 BAFTA Awards: 2 0
Cast
Director:
Jane
Patricia
Thomas
Bill
Ron
The Blonde
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Trivia
Sean Connery
Sean Connery turned down the lead role, because, "I couldn't understand what Antonioni was talking about."
Evabritt Strandberg
Michelangelo Antonioni's first choice for the role of Jane was the Swedish actress Evabritt Strandberg, after spotting her in Bo Widerberg's film Kärlek 65 (1965). She went to London to meet Antonioni. He approved of her, but the three MGM bosses present at the meeting didn't like her "big nose". The role went to Vanessa Redgrave.
Nikon
Thomas' workhorse camera was the then innovative Nikon F, the world's first 35mm SLR with full coupling of shutter and aperture with its exposure meter. Even though the particular model had been around since 1959, the glamorous publicity it received in the movie generated an unprecedented enthusiasm among camera buffs, professionals and amateurs alike.
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