A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
- Director
- Writers
- Michelangelo Antonioni(story)
- Julio Cortázar(short story "Las babas del diablo")
- Tonino Guerra(screenplay)
- Stars
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- Director
- Writers
- Michelangelo Antonioni(story)
- Julio Cortázar(short story "Las babas del diablo")
- Tonino Guerra(screenplay)
- Stars
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 8 wins & 11 nominations total
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Veruschka von Lehndorff
- Verushkaas Verushka
- (as Verushka)
Charlie Bird
- Homeless Manas Homeless Man
- (uncredited)
Robin Burns
- Homeless Manas Homeless Man
- (uncredited)
Julio Cortázar
- Homeless Manas Homeless Man
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Michelangelo Antonioni(story) (screenplay)
- Julio Cortázar(short story "Las babas del diablo")
- Tonino Guerra(screenplay)
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Storyline
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. —Anonymous
- Taglines
- Michelangelo Antonioni's first British film
- Genres
- Certificate
- Not Rated
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaAmong 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 (1966)" is based.
- GoofsDavid Hemmings character uses a two way radio from his Rolls several times in the film. Very rare for 1966 and a precursor to the car phone. However mobile radios like that at that time need a large whip antenna attached to the car to function. The Rolls has its normal radio antennae on the fender, but nothing else so that two way radio could not work.
- Alternate versionsSome of the music was rescored for the Warner DVD release, namely the latter part of the opening title music. The VHS releases' music remain intact.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Film Review: How I Learned to Live with Being a Star (1967)
- SoundtracksMain Title (Blow-Up)
Written and Performed by Herbie Hancock
Top review
Sixties Marvel
Blow Up is the quintessential 60' s movie with a roster of talented British actors, colourful mod fashions (now back in vogue), dreary post-war London locations and empty streets, groovy music by American composer extraordinaire Herbie Hancock and an Italian director and writer in love with the whole scene. Blow Up is the cinematic equivalent of the TR4 cabriolet, designed by Michelotti and manufactured by Triumph during the same period, and mixes the best of two rather different cultures. The movie offers the right amount of nudity, sensuality and perversion without offending the prude status quo of swinging Olde England. David Hemmings plays a character who is by all accounts snobbish, homophobic, prejudiced, rude and macho. This pseudo thriller/whodunit unwinds rather slowly and with little dialogue and, I think, is just an excuse for Antonioni to show how weird the English were. A must see flick for the ones nostalgic or who missed the 60' s completely.
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- Jul 13, 2004
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $35,329
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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