Blow-Up
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Short description
Thomas is a successful fashion photographer in London whose days are filled with shoots, parties, music and casual encounters. Restless and dissatisfied with his glamorous life, he wanders the city and, on impulse, photographs a couple he notices in a park. The woman, Jane, chases him back to his studio and is desperate to get hold of the film, going so far as to offer herself to him. Suspicious, Thomas hands her a different roll. When he develops the negatives, he spots something suspicious among the enlargements and comes to believe he has recorded a murder.
Michelangelo Antonioni directed and co-wrote the film with Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond. It was the eighth of the thirteen features he directed, arriving between Red Desert and Zabriskie Point, and it was produced by Carlo Ponti for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Carlo Ponti Production and Bridge Films, with a budget of about two million dollars. David Hemmings leads as Thomas, alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Veruschka von Lehndorff and Jane Birkin, among a credited cast of thirty-three.
Made in Britain with Italian and American backing, the film runs 111 minutes. On IMDb it holds a 7.4 rating from roughly 72,000 votes, and on TMDB a 7.3 from about 1,400 votes. A critics' rating of 8.7 from 52 reviews places it noticeably higher than those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The famous propeller from the film was located in a restaurant of the same name in St. Petersburg on the Griboyedov Canal, opposite the Kazan Cathedral, for some time in the early 2000s.
- This is the first English-language film to fully depict female nudity.
- A reference to the film can also be seen in Tim Burton's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (2005), in the scene where two gay men walk poodles before Charlie finds the money.
- To bypass censorship restrictions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer created a shell company, Premiere Productions, which was not subject to censorship restrictions. As a result, the film was released uncut, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer retained the rights to it.
- Antonioni was dissatisfied with the shade of green of the grass in Marion Park and ordered it to be repainted with green paint.
- In order to bypass censorship restrictions and release the film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer created a shell company, Premiere Productions, which was not subject to censorship. As a result, the film was released uncut, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer retained all rights to it.
- One scene in the film shows a fragment of a 'The Yardbirds' concert in which Jeff Beck breaks his guitar. This performance dates back to that brief period in the band's history when Beck and Jimmy Page played together – Beck left the band a few months after this performance. Initially, 'The Who' were contenders to replace 'The Yardbirds'.
- The Rolls-Royce that Thomas drives belonged to English actor Jimmy Savile and was repainted from white to black for filming.
- The film is based on the short story 'Blow-Up' by Julio Cortázar.
- The famous propeller from the film in the early 2000s was located in a restaurant of the same name in St. Petersburg on the Griboyedov Canal.
- Julio Cortázar can be seen in one of the photographs of homeless men taken by Thomas.
- In one of the photographs of homeless men taken by Thomas, the author of the original story, Julio Cortázar, can be seen.
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