Blow-Up

– A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.60 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 51 Minutes
Release Year:
1966
Blow-Up (1966)

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. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has 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.

Blow-Up (1966) - Trailer

Release Date:

24 Feb 1967

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer:

Michelangelo Antonioni (story), Julio Cortázar (short story "Las babas del diablo"), Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay), Tonino Guerra (screenplay), Edward Bond (English dialogue)

Main Actors:

Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle

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.

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 6 nominations.

Production:

MGM

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
Metacritic:
82%