Blow-Up
– A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and..
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.
24 Feb 1967
English
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (story), Julio Cortázar (short story "Las babas del diablo"), Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay), Tonino Guerra (screenplay), Edward Bond (English dialogue)
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle
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.
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 6 nominations.
MGM