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Blow Up
1966
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles |
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| Director | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Genres | Drama |
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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.~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, The Yardbirds |
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| Director | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1966 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 09 Jul 2010 To Rent: DVD: 12 Apr 2004 |
| LOVEFiLM Instant | £2.49 |
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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 ...
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