Blowup
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: Mystery, Psychological thriller, Thriller, Crime Thriller
Year: 1966
Country: Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, John Castle, Claude Chagrin, Veruschka, Jeff Beck
Blow-Up (or Blowup) is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, his first English-language film.
It tells of a British photographer's accidental involvement with a murder, inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story, "Las babas del diablo" or "The Devil's Drool" (1959), translated also as Blow-Up, and by the life of Swinging London photographer David Bailey. The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, although the music is diegetic, as Hancock noted: "It's only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record." Nominated for several awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Blow-Up won the Grand Prix.
The film stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin and Gillian Hills. The 1960s model Veruschka has a scene considered by Premiere as "the sexiest cinematic moment in history". The screenplay was written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The film was produced by Carlo Ponti, who had contracted Antonioni to make three English-language films for MGM (the others were Zabriskie Point and The Passenger).
The American release of the film with its explicit content (by
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