Blowup daringly suggests that an image without politics isn’t an image at all.
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01/30/04
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
Every 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
No review available.
01/16/04
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
No review available.
04/18/03
No review available.
04/04/03
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
Part brilliant, part disturbing and part pretentious codswallop.
08/21/02
No review available.
07/26/02
I have enough faith in my judgment to recognize a stinker.
02/28/02
An important film of the sixties that has not aged well.
02/27/01
Michelangelo Antonioni's first English language film is as maddening to watch as it is absorbing.
01/01/00
The very last scene poses a profound and beautiful question about movies, the art of storytelling, and Life Itself.
01/01/00
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
Blow-Up (1966) is director Michelangelo Antonioni's view of the world of mod fashion, and an engaging, provocative murder mystery
01/01/00
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