Fresh
A prize '60s artifact, Michelangelo Antonioni's what-is-truth? meditation on Swinging London is a movie to appreciate -- if not ponder.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Blow-Up
Sometimes, reality is the strangest fantasy of all.
1966 · 1h 51m · Not Rated
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Blow-Up
Overview
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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87%
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Rotten
In Blow-Up [Antonioni] smothers this conflict in the kind of pompous platitudes the press loves to designate as proper to "mature," "adult," "sober" art.
Pauline Kael, The New Republic
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
There may be some meaning, some commentary about life being a game, beyond what remains locked in the mind of film's creator, Italian director-writer Michelangelo Antonioni. But it is doubtful that the general public will get the 'message' of this film.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
As often with Antonioni, a film riddled with moments of brilliance and scuppered by infuriating pretensions.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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