Blow-Up

Blow-Up

Sometimes, reality is the strangest fantasy of all.

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Release Date

12/18/1966

Runtime

111 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,800,000

Revenue

$20,000,000

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A photographer's descent into doubt as he obsessively examines blurry photographic evidence of something he may or may not have witnessed. The film drifts between swinging-sixties glamour and existential dread, asking whether seeing is believing.

Mood

ParanoidUnsettlingContemplativeWistful

Themes

IdentityArt and creationMemoryObsession

Tone

Detached

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterlyHigh-contrast

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Sexual content

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