The ennui stretches into the very story itself.
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03/08/04
Blow-Up (1966)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:30
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Michelangelo Antonioni delivers yet another masterful cinematic expose with BLOW UP, a provocative mystery set in the seamy mod culture of London. The film follows a photographer (David Hemmings)... [More]
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, Jill Kennington
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Reviews for Blow-Up
The energy of the first hour dissipates just as the mystery is supposed to be deepening. But I envy you if you're seeing it for the first time -- it's still the finest motion picture to ever conclude with mimes pretending to play tennis.
01/01/00
As often with Antonioni, a film riddled with moments of brilliance and scuppered by infuriating pretensions.
06/24/06
This is a fascinating picture, which has something real to say about the matter of personal involvement and emotional commitment in a jazzed-up, media-hooked-in world so cluttered with synthetic stimulations that natural feelings are overwhelmed.
05/20/03
Top CriticAntonioni’s chic study in ambiguity calls into question the notion of photographic truth, and indeed reality itself.
03/05/04
Blow-Up (1966) is director Michelangelo Antonioni's view of the world of mod fashion, and an engaging, provocative murder mystery
01/01/00
Whether there was a murder isn't the point. The film is about a character mired in ennui and distaste, who is roused by his photographs into something approaching passion.
01/20/06
Top CriticEvery generation has a cautionary tale like Blow-Up, but its hypocrisy is special: it peddles what it condemns. Just as tired and offensive today as it was in '66.
01/28/04
The very last scene poses a profound and beautiful question about movies, the art of storytelling, and Life Itself.
01/01/00
Blowup daringly suggests that an image without politics isn’t an image at all.
01/30/04
Inventive, richly styled film, a visual classic.
08/31/06
Michelangelo Antonioni's first English language film is as maddening to watch as it is absorbing.
01/01/00
Part brilliant, part disturbing and part pretentious codswallop.
08/21/02
Relying only on our subjective perceptions and personal interpretations, we are asked to find the truth for ourselves.
03/03/04
An important film of the sixties that has not aged well.
02/27/01
See it for the bell bottoms and the birds, and if the existential riddle at the core of the film captures your imagination, so much the better.
08/29/02
I have enough faith in my judgment to recognize a stinker.
02/28/02
This is so ravishing to look at (the colors all seem newly minted) and pleasurable to follow (the enigmas are usually more teasing than worrying) that you're likely to excuse the metaphysical pretensions.
07/31/07
Top CriticThe 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.
06/07/06
Top CriticSpeaks to the inescapability of modern man’s emotional and spiritual alienation.
05/03/05
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