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Blow-Up

Blowup
Blowup poster.jpg
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Produced by
Screenplay by
Story by Michelangelo Antonioni
Based on "Las babas del diablo"
by Julio Cortázar
Starring
Music by Herbert Hancock
Cinematography Carlo Di Palma
Edited by Frank Clarke
Production
company
Distributed by
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (UK)
  • Premier Pictures (US)
Release date
  • 18 December 1966 (1966-12-18) (US)
  • 16 March 1967 (1967-03-16) (UK)
Running time
111 minutes
Country
  • United Kingdom
    United States
    Italy
Language English
Budget $1.8 million
Box office $20,000,000

Blowup, or Blow-Up, is a 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film.

The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin and Gillian Hills as well as sixties model Veruschka. The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The film was produced by Carlo Ponti, who had contracted Antonioni to make three English-language films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (the others were Zabriskie Point and The Passenger).

The plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story, "Las babas del diablo" or "The Devil's Drool" (1959), translated also as "Blow Up" in Blow-up and Other Stories, and by the life of Swinging London photographer David Bailey. The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. The music is diegetic, as Hancock noted: "It's only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record." Nominated for several awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Blowup won the Grand Prix.


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