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
Videos
July 2 2017
Photos
Trivia
First nudity
Reportedly the first British feature film to show full frontal female nudity.
Cortazar
Among the homeless men whose photos were taken by the David Hemmings character is Julio Cortázar who wrote the original short story on which Blow-Up (Deseo de una mañana de verano) (1966) is based.
The Yardbirds
The film contains a rare performance of The Yardbirds during the period when Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were both in the band. Jeff Beck would leave a few months later.
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