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Blowup [1967]
starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin
directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014780500150
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: July 10, 2000
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1966
Sales Rank: 8348

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
It may not stand up as an art-house film (the opening and closing shots of a mime playing tennis belong in the Pretentious Metaphor Hall of Fame), but this head scratcher is an absorbing travelogue of swinging London circa 1967, courtesy of auteur tourist Michelangelo Antonioni. Blow Up is also a meticulous, paranoid murder mystery that has left its fingerprints on dozens of later films, from Coppola's The Conversation to the recent cult item The Usual Suspects. The efforts of a fashion photographer (David Hemmings) to analyse a photo snapped off-the-cuff in a public park, which may have recorded a crime in progress, resonated at the time with conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. From here it looks like an anticipation of up-to-the-minute anxieties about the filtering of perception through metastasising media. The movie marked the film debut of Vanessa Redgrave, and in the justly celebrated purple-paper scene, expat chanteuse-to-be Jane Birkin. --David Chute

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- A fascinating enigma...
Read "film-buff" reviews of "Blow Up" and you'll find a huge diversity of opinion. It's a masterpiece... it's rubbish... it's tantalisingly complex... it's hedonistically superficial... what happens in the film is "real"... nothing that happens in the film is "real"... and so it goes. Watch the film and take your choice, but the fact that it still generates such reactions is a testament to its enduring impact. So what does it have?

Well, on the down side, a lot of the acting is weak, the musical soundtrack is too self-consciously "hip", and several of the scenes appear to have been inserted purely for effect - "we do nudity, drugs and rock & roll as well as making films". And on the plus side? David Hemmings acting is superb, ... Read More:

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- the start of an extraordinary actress ...
Vanessa Redgrave (* 1937) made her world-wide film-debut in "Blow Up" (1966) with her very slowly and erotically stripped back (as mysterious, murder-hushing Jane) - and she created thereby a long-lasting image. With her special sort of secrecy she built up a Profumo- Christine- Keeler- affair-impression. If one examines Redgrave's developing image profile more exactly - alike photographer Thomas (played by David Hemmings) in Michelangelo Antonioni's movie is working in the darkroom making blown up photos, then one discovers, that nothing remains as it is in the beginning (and that is the message of "Blow Up" too). In the year 1968 she played among other things the legendary dancer Isadora or the sexually tractable Mrs Codrington (in "The Charge ... Read More:

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- The best film for the children of the sixties
This film made a very big impact on me in the sixties. I was living in London at the time and it captured a feeling that was in the air in the city at that time . It summed up the atmosphere in London for those of us who could not pinpoint or articulate what was going on behind all the "parties"that lasted through the night and the music and fashions. Everyone of a particular age wanted to be like David Hemnings or thought they were like David Hemmings. The feeling the film gave was that you could be like David Hemmings at your own level. You didn't need the Rolls Royce. All you really needed was an slr camera and some clothes.
I think that the true art of this picture is that it made you feel something. It made you really appreciate the time ... Read More:

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- Pretentious art-house nonsense
No doubt an artistic masterpiece in its moody composition and as a historical record of 60s pop-culture, the film has nothing to offer anyone but the most abstract and pretentious arts student.

This is half a film. In lieu of the other half we have artistic imagery and impotent stabs at philosophy.
"I thought you were in Paris."
"I am in Paris." Woooo. After an hour of such superficial attempts at substance, one is forced to conlude that this is obscurity for the sake of obscurity. The amount of time we spend watching Thomas walking around staring at things, then suddenly running off somewhere to stare at some other things, takes us well and truly into the land of self-indulgence on the part of the director.

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- The Eyes of David Hemmings.
From the moment the cooled-out jazz from Herbie Hancock sets in,'Blow-Up' takes you on an intriguing journey back into the 'Swingin' Sixties'.Was life really like that?Were houses routinely painted red from roof to basement?No.Perhaps.If you're lucky enough.Or unlucky enough depending on your role in Antonioni's tale.I liked it when Verushka answers Thomas's query "I thought you were in Paris?" with '"I am."
It's a film that stands up to many many viewings,rather like the way Thomas blows-up the pic until it's graininess becomes over-whelming ,this film will find you looking in all sorts of places for answers.
Hemmings is a very underrated actor.Hard to take your eyes off too.(at least for me)

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