Blow-Up

Blow-Up

  • Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni,Julio Cortázar,Tonino Guerr
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Italy
  • Language: English
  • Release date: September 26, 1967
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Ekstaze '67
  • "Enlarge" is a thriller produced by Bridge Films and released on December 18, 1966. The film is directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Mills, David Hemings and Zhou Caiqin.
    The film mainly tells the story of the photographer Thomas who secretly took a group of photos about a lover's date in a park in London. 

    Details

    • Release date September 26, 1967
    • Filming locations Maryon Park, Woolwich Road, Charlton, London, England, UK
    • Production companies Carlo Ponti Production

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,800,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $6,066

    Movie reviews

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    • By Fay 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      magnify the moment of existence

      A literary film with a strong artistic style. Although the plot is simple and there are not many supporting characters, these characters and scenes that seem to be unrelated to the story enrich the expression of the film. The actor's acting skills are full of tension. One person supports the whole movie. The language of the shots is also very rich, showing a strong artistic atmosphere. The editing rhythm and the soundtrack are combined just right, making the narrative atmosphere a little...

    • By Marjolaine 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      "Antonioni's world is a world that has lost the possibility of salvation."

      I watched it at noon when I was most sleepy, and the more I watched it, the more sleepy I became. The main story came out very slowly, 100 minutes of film, until about 30 minutes, the real story has just begun. I fell asleep immediately after watching it, and woke up vaguely feeling that I had watched a black and white movie. But on second thought, no, it's colored.

      Antonioni uses black and white inside and color outside to deceive the visual appearance. The protagonist has been...

    • By Alexys 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Can art reach life?

      The protagonist Thomas is a prestigious photographer whose artistic creation and life are closely linked. For him, the relationship between art and life is naturally the core issue. This abstract question has a relatively concrete presentation between him and his subjects. In the first scene where he shot a female model, it was not so much that the two were filming, but rather that they were copulating. The camera, as Thomas' sexual organ, gave him...

    • By Hollie 2022-04-23 07:02:33

      After "Zoom"--what you think is what you get

      What is the line between truth and fantasy?

      Can our senses help us understand the world?

      The film "Zoom in" asks us questions through a photographer's point of view.

      (1) Interpretation of "truth"

      I saw a...

    • By Brionna 2022-04-23 07:02:33

      Choose to see, or turn a blind eye - the end of the video

      At the end of the film, the male protagonist is lost because he returns to the park and finds that the body is gone. He was walking along the road when a clown actor (a college student club) in a jeep happened to stop at the tennis court in front of him. Two clowns, a man and a woman, entered first and played tennis without real objects. The male protagonist gradually became fascinated, but he was far away from the other clowns watching. After a few rounds, the tennis ball was accidentally...

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    • By Zechariah 2023-09-16 21:22:40

      It must be acknowledged that Michelangelo Antonioni's unique and concise style of film aesthetics, whether it is the picture or dialogue, as well as the absurd and nihilistic philosophical ideas shown in the film, but only for this story with a good setting , the overall presentation is inevitably a bit boring. The final scene of "Playing Tennis with Empty Hands" in "Zoom in" is the most splendid sequence, and it is an extraordinary act of...

    • By Joy 2023-08-18 14:23:14

      4- The bird i'm with won't talk to you. Materialized symbols Where is the life you like in Nepal or Morocco Is it easier to escape this era? Loved more smoke against the beat in the second...

    • By Darion 2023-07-19 19:17:46

      Partial facts cannot be called the truth, and after magnifying the key parts, there are more losses behind the truth. The plot is quite novel, the virtual tennis at the end is very exciting, and even the title of the film has a unique connotation. The slow camera does not create dullness, but sets off a serious and cold philosophical...

    • By Isobel 2023-05-24 23:21:40

      Perhaps the inspiration for "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers" came from this, but I feel that Chen Kaige did a better job. Naked smashing the piano is superfluous, and the movie is not a...

    • By Chasity 2023-05-10 07:31:26

      Absurdist? Hate photographers like that, self-righteous. What else do you do besides press the shutter? Times marked psychology and philosophy. The models are...

    Movie plot

    Photographer Thomas secretly took a group of photos about a lover's date in a park in London. Later, the woman in the photo desperately wanted these negatives, which aroused Thomas's suspicion. Thomas kept Enlarge the photos, and finally believed that he saw a body and a man with a gun in the photos, and he seemed to have found evidence of the murder scene. Thomas tried to expose the murder based on the vague evidence in the photos,...
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    "Enlarge" is actually a work facing a turning point in Antonioni's creation. Compared with the previous "Eclipse" and "Adventures", the director has largely weakened the constant exploration of the alienation theme that is incommunicable between people. As well as the description of the loneliness that is not in the middle class, the usual empty shots and long shots are also missing in the use of images and lenses. Instead, An's care...
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    Movie quotes

    • Thomas: I want you to see the corpse. We've got to get a shot of it.

      Ron: I'm not a photographer.

      Thomas: I am!

    • Verushka: [long-legged model awaits] Here I am.

      Thomas: Ready?

      Verushka: [foreign accent] I've been ready for nearly an hour.

      Thomas: Good.

      Verushka: I'm catching a plane for Paris at eleven, so I can't...

      Thomas: Can't what?

      Verushka: It doesn't matter.

      Thomas: [regards her over ostrich feathers] Who the hell were you with last night?

      [she smirks and moves on]

    • Patricia: I wonder why they shot him.

      Thomas: I didn't ask.