Blow-Up

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., Writer-director Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie jigsaw puzzle centres on a swinging London photographer who believes that, during a shoot, he may have captured a murder involving a mysterious woman., A pop-culture cult classic. David Hemmings stars as the photographer who may have unwittingly snapped a murder. An intriguing, erotic film, rich in symbolism., Writer-director Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie jigsaw puzzle centers on a swinging London photographer who believes that, during a shoot, he may have captured a murder involving a mysterious woman. Antonioni was nominated for Best Director, and he and two others got a nod for Best Original Screenplay., Antonioni’s pop-culture cult classic, with Hemmings as the photographer who may have unwittingly snapped a murder involving a young woman (Redgrave) in a London park. An intriguing, erotic film that’s rich in symbolism and redolent of the heady era of the Swinging Sixties., Antonioni’s pop-culture cult classic, with David Hemmings as the photographer who may have unwittingly snapped a murder. An intriguing, erotic film that’s rich in symbolism.