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Blow-up
Thomas, a London photographer who spends his time photographing fashion models, has unwittingly captured a murder on film. And one day, the woman in the photo has appeared at his studio, and wants the pictures he took.
April1952, England, UK
9 January 1944, Heston, Middlesex, England, UK
27 December 1946, Fulham, London, England, UK
May 14, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA
30 November 1933, Shanghai, China
September 15, 1892 in Dublin, Ireland
14 December 1946, London, England, UK
28 August 1940, Rhodesia
March 29, 2011
Antonioni's first English-speaking film is a seminal work of the 1960s, reflecting swinging London as well as dealing with voyeurism, artists' social responsbilities and other relevant issues.
June 24, 2006
As often with Antonioni, a film riddled with moments of brilliance and scuppered by infuriating pretensions.
February 04, 2013
A prize '60s artifact, Michelangelo Antonioni's what-is-truth? meditation on Swinging London is a movie to appreciate -- if not ponder.
April 11, 2016
This remains a failure for which I would trade ten successes: a totally absorbing experience on the screen, a film of deceptive, tricky surfaces and cold perceptions.
July 31, 2007
This is so ravishing to look at (the colors all seem newly minted) and pleasurable to follow (the enigmas are usually more teasing than worrying) that you're likely to excuse the metaphysical pretensions.
August 22, 2015
Michelangelo Antonioni's first English language film is an allegorical murder mystery whose abstract parameters delineate a society where images are more important, and lasting, than reality.
June 07, 2006
The natural world is arrayed against the artificial scene; conscience is deployed against convention. If you've never seen Blow-Up, see it now, if only to see what part of the world was like 40 years ago.
February 04, 2013
Inspiring everyone from Francis Ford Coppola to Mike Myers, Michelangelo Antonioni's arty thriller remains an absorbing, eerie enigma.
July 31, 2007
There may be some meaning, some commentary about life being a game, beyond what remains locked in the mind of film's creator, Italian director-writer Michelangelo Antonioni. But it is doubtful that the general public will get the 'message' of this film.
February 04, 2013
Despite its thriller hook, Blow-Up is less a mystery than a portrait of swinging alienation.
April 10, 2017
At once provocative and mystifying, dazzlingly immersive and utterly remarkable.
February 04, 2013
In Blow-Up [Antonioni] smothers this conflict in the kind of pompous platitudes the press loves to designate as proper to "mature," "adult," "sober" art.

