BLOW-UP

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• Release Year: 1966
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Plot: In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame, and the jazzy sounds of Herbie Hancock, a beautifully evasive performance by Vanessa Redgrave, and a cameo by the Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era. Blow-Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion, and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists.
• Cast: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin, Jeff Beck, Susan Brodrick, Tsai Chin, Julio Cortázar, Chris Dreja, Melanie Hampshire, Harry Hutchinson, Jill Kennington, Mary Khal, Chas Lawther, Dyson Lovell, Jim McCarty, Peggy Moffitt, Rosaleen Murray, Ann Norman, Ronan O'Casey, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf, Janet Street-Porter, Reg Wilkins, Fred Wood, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
• Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
• Runtime: 2:21
• Company: Premier Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie