BLOW UP
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: David Hemmings , Vanessa Redgrave , Sarah Miles
1966 Great Britain Col. 35mm 110 mins
This film is one of the most celebrated works of Swinging London 60s cinema. It is also a major masterpiece of modernist Michlangelo Antonioni. ( It's also his 1st film in English )
David Hemmings plays a photographer . One day , he starts taking pictures in a park. There, he meets a girl who refuses to be photographed. He ignores her objection. But something strange happens. He finds a dead body in the photograph when he tries to enlarge the picture. Out of curiosity, he goes back to park and he really finds the corpse.
Then , the girl appears again and everything changes. The photographs are gone , the girl is gone , and even the dead body is gone . Suddenly, all that happens to the photographer seem more like a dream than reality. Does the murder really happen ?The film searches for the meaning and the subjective of reality.
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