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Movie
Blow-Up
Synopsis
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language production was also his only box office hit, widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his "fab" but oddly-lifeless existence of casual sex and drug use, Thomas comes alive when he wanders through a park, stops to take pictures of a couple embracing, and upon developing the images, believes that he has photographed a murder. Pursued by Jane (Vanessa Redgrave), the woman who is in the photos, Thomas pretends to give her the pictures, but in reality, he passes off a different roll of film to her. Thomas returns to the park and discovers that there is, indeed, a dead body lying in the shrubbery: the gray-haired man who was embracing Jane. Has she murdered him, or does Thomas' photo reveal a man with a gun hiding nearby? Antonioni's thriller is a puzzling, existential, adroitly-assembled masterpiece.
Cast
- David Hemmings
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Sarah Miles
- John Castle
- Jane Birkin
- Gillian Hills
- Peter Bowles
- Veruschka von Lehndorff
- Julian Chagrin
- Claude Chagrin
- Jimmy Page
- Peggy Moffitt
- Jeff Beck
- Ann Norman
- Susan Brodrick
- Tsai Chin
- Susan Broderick
- Chris Dreja
- Melanie Hampshire
- Harry Hutchinson
- Jill Kennington
- Ronan O'Casey
- Mary Khal
- Edward Bond
- Carlo Di Palma
- Jocelyn Rickards
- Tonino Guerra
- Frank Clarke
- Assheton Gorton
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Pierre Rouve
- Paul Rabiger