This film was proposed by Fabio Cardascia, who writes: 'In keeping with the Garden Cinema's Jack Nicholson season, which included The Passenger, it would be nice to show another classic by the same director. What`s more, the film was all shot and set in London during the Swinging-Sixties.'
In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame, and the jazzy sounds of Herbie Hancock, a beautifully evasive performance by Vanessa Redgrave, and a cameo by The Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era. Blow-Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion, and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists.
Cast:
David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles