Blowup sometimes styled as Blow-up or Blow Up is a mystery thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and stars David Hemmings as a London fashion photographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. The film's non- diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock , while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. The film is set within the mod subculture of s Swinging London. In the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival , Blowup won the Palme d'Or , the festival's highest honour. The American release of the counterculture-era [6] film with its explicit sexual content was in direct defiance of Hollywood's Production Code. Its subsequent critical and box-office success influenced the abandonment of the code in in favour of the MPAA film rating system. After spending the night at a doss house , where he has taken pictures for a book of art photos, photographer Thomas is late for a photo shoot with model Veruschka at his studio, which in turn makes him late for a shoot with other models later in the morning.
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Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence. Today, you rarely hear it mentioned. Young audiences aren't interested any more in a movie about a "trendy" London photographer who may or may not have witnessed a murder, who lives a life of cynicism and ennui, and who ends up in a park at dawn, watching college kids play tennis with an imaginary ball. The twentysomethings who bought tickets for "Blow-Up" are now focused on ironic, self-referential slasher movies. Americans flew to "swinging London" in the s; today's Londoners pile onto the charter jets to Orlando.
