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Blow-Up

Country: UK | Italy | USA, Language: English, 111 mins

  • Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni; Julio Cortázar
  • Producer: Carlo Ponti; Pierre Rouve

CGiii Comment

Regarded as a highly influential film...

The first hour is thrill-less...a portrait of a vile photographer (the peculiar Hemmings, demonstrating the not-so fine line between ugly and beauty).

It's a dreary piece of unlikeable self-importance with a conclusion of pompous nonsense.

It may be meaningful to the challenged, to the educated...it's bollocks.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Vanessa Redgrave as Jane;
Sarah Miles as Patricia;
David Hemmings as Thomas;
John Castle as Bill;
Jane Birkin as The Blonde;
Gillian Hills as The Brunette;
Peter Bowles as Ron;
Veruschka von Lehndorff as Herself;
Julian Chagrin as Mime;
Claude Chagrin as Mime;
Jeff Beck as Himself - The Yardbirds;
Susan Brodrick as Antique shop owner;
Tsai Chin as Thomas's receptionist;
Chris Dreja as Himself - The Yardbirds;
Melanie Hampshire as Model