Blow-Up
Screening on Film
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
With David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave.
UK, 1966, 35mm, color, 110 min.
With David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave.
UK, 1966, 35mm, color, 110 min.
In Antonioni’s first English-language film, a fashion photographer-social documentarian worries about the correlation between art and life and gets caught up representsin a murder plot with an intriguing stranger, forcing him to question life’s most basic moral propositions and to ask whether two human beings can ever truly communicate. A dazzling riddle of perception versus reality, laced with a sexual frankness never before seen in commercial cinema, Blow-Up continues to capture audiences with its depiction of the swinging London scene of the mid-1960s.