Blow-Up
1966 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his "fab" but oddly-lifeless existence of casual sex and drug use, Thomas comes alive when he wanders through a park, stops to take pictures of a couple embracing, and upon developing the images, believes that he has photographed a murder. Pursued by Jane (Vanessa Redgrave), the woman who is in the photos, Thomas pretends to give her the pictures, but in reality, he passes off a different roll of film to her. Thomas returns to the park and discovers that there is, indeed, a dead body lying in the shrubbery: the gray-haired man who was embracing Jane. Has she murdered him, or does Thomas' photo reveal a man with a gun hiding nearby?
Direction Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast David Hemmings · Vanessa Redgrave · Sarah Miles · Peter Bowles · Jane Birkin · Gillian Hills · Verushka · John Castle · Julian Chagrin · Claude Chagrin
Soundtrack Herbert Hancock
Screenplay Tonino Guerra · Michelangelo Antonioni · Julio Cortázar
Cinematography Carlo Di Palma
Original title Blow-Up (Blowup)
7.0
14K votes (FilmAffinity)
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