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Blow-up (1966)

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Country: GB/IT
Technical: col 111m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis:

A photographer shooting in a park later discovers he has recorded evidence of a murder, or has he?

Review:

Antonioni incidentally captured swinging London perfectly on film, another piece of meaningless ephemera. The concerns of the film are far more profound, however: the ability, or not, of a technical medium to capture reality truthfully. What seems to be the problem is that the more the photographer enlarges, or blows up, to get a better look, the more ambiguous his photograph actually becomes. De Palma took the central idea and reworked it much more straightforwardly in Blow Out.

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Country: GB/IT
Technical: col 111m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis:

A photographer shooting in a park later discovers he has recorded evidence of a murder, or has he?

Review:

Antonioni incidentally captured swinging London perfectly on film, another piece of meaningless ephemera. The concerns of the film are far more profound, however: the ability, or not, of a technical medium to capture reality truthfully. What seems to be the problem is that the more the photographer enlarges, or blows up, to get a better look, the more ambiguous his photograph actually becomes. De Palma took the central idea and reworked it much more straightforwardly in Blow Out.


Country: GB/IT
Technical: col 111m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis:

A photographer shooting in a park later discovers he has recorded evidence of a murder, or has he?

Review:

Antonioni incidentally captured swinging London perfectly on film, another piece of meaningless ephemera. The concerns of the film are far more profound, however: the ability, or not, of a technical medium to capture reality truthfully. What seems to be the problem is that the more the photographer enlarges, or blows up, to get a better look, the more ambiguous his photograph actually becomes. De Palma took the central idea and reworked it much more straightforwardly in Blow Out.

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