Title: Blow-Up
Original Title: Blowup
Year: 1966
Info
- Country: UK Italy
- Length: 111 Minutes (1 hour 51 min)
- Budget: 1,800,000
- Genre: Drama Thriller Mystery
- Studios: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Distributor: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
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
- 1967 Academy Awards (Oscars): 2 0
- 1968 BAFTA Awards: 2 0
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Trivia
Evabritt Strandberg
Michelangelo Antonioni's first choice for the role of Jane was the Swedish actress Evabritt Strandberg, after spotting her in Bo Widerberg's film Kärlek 65 (1965). She went to London to meet Antonioni. He approved of her, but the three MGM bosses present at the meeting didn't like her "big nose". The role went to Vanessa Redgrave.
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.
London
Even though the film was set in London, Michelangelo Antonioni was adamant that the story wasn't necessarily about London.
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Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?
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Train Kept A - Rollin'
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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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