
Blow-Up
Sometimes, reality is the strangest fantasy of all.
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Release Date
12/18/1966Runtime
111 minsOverview
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
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$1,800,000Revenue
$20,000,000Homepage
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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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