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Blow-up (1966) Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Plot Summary: Thomas (David Hemmings) is a London photographer who spends his time photographing fashion models. But one day he thinks he may have photographed something far more sinister: a murder. After taking pictures in the park, Thomas is horrified to find an ambiguous image lurking on the edge of the frame, which could be a shadow, but looks like a gun. The only thing clear is that the woman (Vanessa Redgrave) in the photo has appeared at his studio and wants the pictures he took.
Never before Blow-Up has Michelangelo Antonioni, the cinema’s bravest spelunker of the soul, come up from the depths with such a marvelous story and such gorgeous pictures of the cavernous emptiness inside modern man. Michelangelo Antonioni's film is an inquiry into the modernist concern of what art is and how it affects life. Like most of this director's works it is ahead of its time, is a masterpiece of techniques from which others will borrow.
