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About
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.
Theatrical
Dec 18, 1966
Budget
$1.8M
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 17, 2004
Theaters
3
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers
Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Producers
Carlo Ponti, Pierre Rouve
Music
Herbie Hancock
Studio
Bridge Films, Carlo Ponti Production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Quotes
See all →The Unflinching Lens of Modern Existence
Taglines
Antonioni's camera never flinches. At love without meaning. At murder without guilt. At the dazzle and madness of youth today.
Reality as the Strangest Fantasy
Taglines
Sometimes reality is the strangest fantasy of all.
Reflections on Perception and Reality in Blow-Up
Quotes about Blowup
* ], in New York Observer (7 June 2006)
[[w:Andrew Sarris|Andrew Sarris]
Contrast Between Nature and Artifice in Blow-Up
Quotes about Blowup
The natural world is arrayed against the artificial scene; conscience is deployed against convention. If you've never seen Blow-Up, see it now, if only to see what part of the world was like 40 years ago.
Cast
Full credits →D
David Hemmings
Thomas
V
Vanessa Redgrave
Jane
S
Sarah Miles
Patricia
J
John Castle
Bill
V
Veruschka von Lehndorff
Veruschka
J
Jane Birkin
The Blonde
G
Gillian Hills
The Brunette
P
Peter Bowles
Ron
J
Julian Chagrin
Mime
C
Claude Chagrin
Mime
J
Jimmy Page
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
J
Jeff Beck
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
T
Tsai Chin
Thomas's Receptionist (uncredited)
S
Susan Brodrick
Antique Shop Owner (uncredited)
P
Peggy Moffitt
Model (uncredited)
C
Charlie Bird
Homeless Man (uncredited)
R
Robin Burns
Homeless Man (uncredited)
J
Julio Cortázar
Homeless Man (uncredited)
C
Chris Dreja
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
L
Lew Hooper
Pedestrian (uncredited)
