Blow Up
Michelangelo Antonioni
Thomas, a brilliant British fashion photographer, begins a reportage on the little-known aspects of London. As part of the reportage, Thomas takes night-time photographs in an asylum and surprises two lovers in a park. In the park, the young woman insists Thomas give her the negatives, but instead he gives her a different roll of film. He immediately develops the photographs, and in them he discovers a hand holding a revolver, and a body in the bushes...
With : David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Peter Bowles, Jane Birkin
Screenplay : Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Image : Carlo di Palma
Dialogues : Edward Bond, d'après une histoire de Julio Cortazar
Music : Herbie Hancock
Editing : Franck Clarke
Decors : Assheton Gorton
Screenplay : Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Image : Carlo di Palma
Dialogues : Edward Bond, d'après une histoire de Julio Cortazar
Music : Herbie Hancock
Editing : Franck Clarke
Decors : Assheton Gorton
Production : Carlo Ponti
Distribution: Les Grands Films Classiques
Distribution: Les Grands Films Classiques
" Reality escapes us. It constantly lies. When we think we have captured it, it has already changed" (M. Antonioni). "A blow-up is an enlarged image, but the more one enlarges an image, the more the grain is enlarged, the less clear is the image, and all objective representation of reality disappears. This is what Antonioni was concerned with, the surface appearance and the reality underneath, impossible to attain (...). He frames a protagonist who has the same problem as himself: capturing reality through a two-dimensional medium (...). In the pop-London of 1966, Blow-up is a story about the loss of control and about learning. The protagonist, becoming conscious of his own inability to capture reality, indeed the impossibility of capturing reality, he learns to question it" (N. Renaud).