Poster Blow-Up

Title: Blow-Up

Original Title: Blowup

Year: 1966

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: March 16 1967
  • United States: December 18 1966

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.

The film is written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, it was the winner of the Palme d'Or of the prestigious Cannes festival in 1967 and nominated for two Academy Awards. The cast is completed by Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle and Jane Birkin.

Awards

Cast

Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles

Patricia

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin

The Blonde

Tsai Chin

Tsai Chin

Thomas's receptionist

Videos

'Blowup' trailer 2:12

'Blowup' trailer

July 2 2017

Photos

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Trivia

The Yardbirds

The film contains a rare performance of The Yardbirds during the period when Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were both in the band. Jeff Beck would leave a few months later.

Cortazar

Among the homeless men whose photos were taken by the David Hemmings character is Julio Cortázar who wrote the original short story on which Blow-Up (Deseo de una mañana de verano) (1966) is based.

Audition

During film, David Hemmings was annoyed to see that Michelangelo Antonioni was shaking his head back and forth in the gesture that he had interpreted as negative during his audition process. However, he soon realized that the gesture was simply a tic and had no negative meaning at all. "Once the mystery was solved," he said, "I was prepared to love him; and I never told him about the week of hell he'd put me through as a result of his affliction."

Soundtrack from 'Blow-Up'

Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?

Compuesta por

John Sebastian

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Sung The Lovin' Spoonful

Train Kept A - Rollin'

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Tiny Bradshaw Howie Kay Sydney Nathan

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The Yardbirds

Stroll On

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Keith Relf Jeff Beck Jimmy Page Chris Dreja Jim McCarty

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Sung The Yardbirds

Curiosity

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Written Herbie Hancock

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