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Blow-Up

Blow-Up

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Overview:

A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
Released: 1966-12-18
Duration: 01:51:00
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Tags: Giallo
Keywords: Photographer, Fashion Photographer, Swinging London, ...
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer: Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond, Michelangelo Antonioni, ...
Cast: Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, David Hemmings, ...
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer: Tonino Guerra Edward Bond Michelangelo Antonioni Julio Cortázar
Cast: Jane Birkin Gillian Hills David Hemmings Vanessa Redgrave Veruschka von Lehndorff Sarah Miles Julian Chagrin John Castle Peter Bowles Claude Chagrin Jimmy Page Jeff Beck Tsai Chin
Genre: Drama Mystery Thriller
Tags: Giallo
Keywords: Photographer Fashion Photographer Swinging London Blow Up Cover-up Photo Enlargement Free Love Film Developing Swinging Sixties Nudity Dead Body Tennis Court Fashion Model Photo Studio London, England Marijuana Park Darkroom Female Frontal Nudity Photograph Photography Fashion Surveillance Older Man Younger Woman Relationship Drugs Independent Film Female Nudity Tennis Ball Gentrification Avant Garde Based On Short Story Aesthetics Camera Sex Scene 35mm Camera Rolls Royce Convertible Female Full Frontal Nudity Female Rear Nudity Jazz Music Postmodernism Mime Death Murder Proof Sheet Rock Club Protest March Photo Shoot British Giallo Surrealism Nikon Camera Antique Shop Giallo Artistic Creation Metaphoric Title Conceit Sarcasm Propeller Photographic Model Photographic Camera Cannabis Concert Giallo Thriller Minimalism Park Warden Jazz Record Turntable Record Player Neon Sign British Car Convertible Car Land Rover Motor Vehicle Strip Fight Metaphysics V. Redgrave And Hemmings Handsome Man England United Kingdom Candid Photograph Philosophical Conversation Counterculture Smoking Marijuana Witness To A Murder Peace March Disorientation Eyewitness Reference To Bertolt Brecht Hasselblad Camera Medium Format Camera
Description

Thomas is a London-based photographer who leads the life of excess typical of late 1960s mod London. He is primarily a highly sought-after studio fashion photographer, although he is somewhat tiring of the vacuousness associated with it. He is also working on a book, a photographic collection of primarily darker images of human life, which is why he spent a night in a flophouse where he secretly took some photos. While he is out one day, Thomas spies a May-September female-male couple being affectionate with each other in a park. From a distance, he clandestinely starts to photograph them, hoping to use the photographs as the final ones for his book. The female eventually sees what he is doing and rushes over wanting him to stop and to give her the roll of film. She states that the photographs will make her already complicated life more complicated. Following him back to his studio, she does whatever she needs to to get the film. He eventually complies, however in reality he has provided her with a different roll. After he develops the photographs, he notices something further in the background of the shots. Blowing them up, he believes he either photographed an attempted murder or an actual murder. The photos begin a quest for Thomas to match his perception to reality.

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.

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