Blowup (1966)
Release Year: 1966
Nation: Italy, United Kingdom
Alternative Title: Blow Up, Blowup - Deseo en una mañana de verano, Blow-Up - Depois Daquele Beijo, Blow-Up, Zvetsenina, Deseo de una mañana de verano, Blow-Up - erään suudelman jälkeen, Poveæanje, Nagyítás, Yetzarim, Yokubou, Powiekszenie, História de Um Fotógrafo, Uvecanje, Blow-up - förstoringen, Cinayeti gördüm, Ekstaze '67
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer: Edward Bond, Tonino Guerra, Michelangelo Antonioni, Julio Cortázar
Production & Genre
Producer: Producer: Carlo Ponti
Executive Producer: Pierre Rouve
Companies: Bridge Films, Carlo Ponti Production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Budget: 1.800.000
Keywords
Keywords: london, england, loss of sense of reality, photographer, burglar, photography, suspicion of murder, surreal, municipal park, pantomime, photographic evidence, murder, counter-culture, corpse, drugs, photo shoot, avant-garde, modeling, swinging london
Story
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Summary
'Blowup' is a 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and loosely based on 'Las babas del diablo' ('The Devil's drool'), a short story by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. The movie is known for its exploration of themes like alienation, identity, and the nature of reality, particularly through its use of the protagonist's profession as a photographer. The film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
